Block comments?

[Roland Schlenker]

Courageous wrote:

> Well, the """ """ works most of the time (a use for strings that I hadn't
> thought of), but of course what I want is to disable arbitrary elements  of
> code without reformatting and the like. It seems that there isn't really
> a full block comment notation, given when you CAN'T use strings.

You can also use ''' ''' to comment out a section which contains """ """.

if 1:
    '''
    """ 'eggs' spam "ham" """
    '''
    pass

Roland Schlenker