why no block comments in Python?

[Benji York]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> I'm thinking this might be a use-case for the new support for
> doctests in a separate file.

Having doctests in their own file is (IMHO) a majorly under appreciated 
feature of doctest.  The ability to do either nice user (as in 
developer) docs with known good examples or well documented 
not-meant-for-documentation unit/functional/integration tests is terrific.
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Benji York