Single Pound # comments versus Double Pound ## comments

[Raymond Hettinger]

Technically, there is no difference.  A comment is a comment.
Practically, double pounds are used to comment out sections of code.
Showing them in gray makes commented out code easier to ignore.
Regular comments are meant to be read, so they show-up in green.

Raymond Hettinger


"Manuel M. Garcia" <mgarcia at cole-switches.com> wrote in message
news:fec163ad.0210041112.6a84baad at posting.google.com...
> In Python code, does anyone distinguish between starting comments with
> a single pound (#) or a double pound (##)?
> ActivePython colorizes them differently (# - green, ## - gray), and
> not understanding the distinction implied is bugging me.