def comments_from_file()

in tools/config_doc_gen.py [0:0]

• 27 lines of code
• 11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def comments_from_file(file_path):
    """
    Get comments from config.py
    """
    comments = []
    analyze = False
    comment_block_begin = False
    with open(file_path, 'r') as config_file:
        lines = config_file.readlines()
        lines = [line.rstrip() for line in lines]
        for line in lines:
            if line.startswith('# THIS MUST PRECEDE DIRECTLY BEFORE LIST OF CONFIG OPTIONS!'):
                analyze = True
                continue
            if line.startswith('# THIS MUST FOLLOW DIRECTLY AFTER LIST OF CONFIG OPTIONS!'):
                break
            if analyze and line.startswith('#'):
                if line.startswith('# BEGIN'):
                    comments.append(line)
                    comment_block_begin = False
                    continue
                if comment_block_begin:
                    comments[-1] += line.lstrip('#') if not comments[-1].endswith('/') else line.lstrip('# ')
                    continue
                comment_block_begin = True
                comments.append(line.lstrip('# '))
            else:  # not comment
                if comment_block_begin:
                    comment_block_begin = False
        return comments