Inconsistent handling of indented comments (E116)

[PeterJCLaw]

Inconsistent handling of indented comments (E116)

[asottile]

until adding a statement between the comments and your block the block has not been "ended". inside a block indentation is allowed up to the block's indentation

once you add the statement it is ended before that making it over-indented

an example in line with yours, but perhaps illustrates the point more directly

if True:
    return 1
    # all done!

[PeterJCLaw]

If that's the case, could you explain why the dedented comment in the original is allowed to be followed by an indented comment?

Perhaps more consistent spellings of the rule would be:

• comments always line up with the last block, or
• comments always line up with each other and may align to the last block or be fully dedented (or some variant allowing alignment to other prior indents which are less indented)

[asottile]

I did already:

inside a block indentation is allowed up to the block's indentation

only a statement can end a block in python