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[Chris]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<3E8974E5.88B861D7 at engcorp.com>...
> Chris wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to request that Python support multi-line 
> > comments (e.g. /* */ in C).
> 
> There are at least two reasons why someone would want to do
> that, and of course it's been suggested before, but what's
> your rationale behind this?  There are generally simple 
> answers that address each possible use case, but perhaps you've
> actually got an original idea about this...
> 
> -Peter

What are the reasons for not having multi-line comments? 

I just remembered that IDLE will color-code """ as a string and not a
comment - even when it is intended only as a comment.