Single line regular expressions are too forgiving

[rockg]

The single line regular expressions match too many words. For example, the file regex, ^(\s_File:?\s_)(.*)$, matches filename, File, file, etc. Having any of these words at the beginning of a comment block for a method, for example, causes the doxypypy script to fail. A similar thing happens with date. If a method brief description starts the word "date", it is treated as a "@Date" tag rather than a string. One solution is to make these tags more explicit by making the semi-colon as not optional. Or perhaps they can only be active in the top module comment block, but not in any class/method/function/etc. definitions. I understand that these expressions are written for flexibility, but right now they are too flexible.

[Feneric]

Good point. I don't think there's any reason not to require the colon; both the PEP and Google's example use it. Anyone disagree?

[Feneric]

OK, it now requires the colons. This is probably enough to get rid of 99.9% of all false positives.