#3 Comments only work when # is the first character

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This comment works:
# this is a comment

This comment doesn't work:
# this is a comment

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lstrip should be used to strip any characters prior the comment sign, see http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.lstrip for more details

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Fixed in revision 13