Code style query: multiple assignments in if/elif tree
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Mar 31 18:57:31 EDT 2014
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> How do you go about doing multi-line comments? I know I've seen other
> code using triple-quoted strings for long comments before.
Just use a sequence of one-line comments::
# Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut a
# sapien tempor, suscipit orci sed, elementum nisl. Suspendisse at
# lacus ut diam dignissim lobortis ac vitae augue.
#
# Phasellus bibendum neque a justo vulputate, quis accumsan quam
# egestas. Etiam aliquet blandit ante sit amet cursus.
A decent code editor (e.g. Emacs, Vim) will allow manipulation of
a sequence of one-line comments in Python's comment style, and allow
treating it as a paragraphs for purposes such as re-wrapping the lines.
I agree with others that triple-quoted strings are best reserved for
string literals (including docstrings), not comments.
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