in reply to Stripping Comments from Source

Sounds like you need to come up with a special "best practice" kind of rule for your developers: internal "eyes only" comments not deemed fit for viewing by the unwashed masses must be designated with a special, easy to parse token.

For example:

# this comment will survive the cut ### secret internal memo - the boss is an idiot! (must delete)

Then just strip all lines beginning with '###'.