Hi.

For debugging purposes, I usually spread out lots of “print out” statements in my code. But for a fast localization of them, I use a sort of tag in order to tell where is the beginning of the debug part and where is the end of it.
For example:

# important code here
variable_x = 0
variable_y = 1
### DEBUG
print(variable_x)
print(variable_y)
### --- DEBUG

In this example, ### DEBUG delimit the beginning of the debug part and ### — DEBUG delimit the end of it.
When I don’t want the debug outputs for a while, I have to go through which one of them commenting them out.
And when I’m done debugging I also have to go through which one of them removing them.

Is there faster way to do these tasks (commenting out and removing), since I have a pattern delimiting my debug parts?
Thanks.

You could do a findall with regex : (?s)### DEBUG.*?### — DEBUG and then every occurrence should be selected so you can remove them or comment them easily

Thanks!
That works great.

Do you think it’s possible to select only the internal part? That is, not considering the delimiters itself (### DEBUG and ### — DEBUG)

Yes, with look-ahead and look-behind:

(?s)(?<=### DEBUG\n).*?(?=### — DEBUG)