Strike through plain text with unicode characters?

Question

Is it possible to strike through unwanted revised words in your code comments? Since developers still code in the dark ages a simpler time of

Answer 1

You can also use this function in Python 3+ to generate it on the fly:

def striken(text):
    return ''.join(t+chr(822) for t in text)

Example output

>>> def striken(text):
...   return ''.join(t+chr(822) for t in text)
... 
>>> striken("hello")
'h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶'
>>> striken("hello darkness my old friend")
'h̶e̶l̶l̶o̶ ̶d̶a̶r̶k̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶'