[Tutor] Comment

[eryk sun]

On 8/23/19, Olsen, Avalow Y <Yuanyuan.A.Olsen at healthpartners.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a mechanism to comment out large blocks of Python code? So far, the
> only ways I can see of commenting out code are to either start every line
> with a #, or to enclose the code in triple quotes.

Note that if a string literal is the first statement of a code block,
not counting comments, the compiler will store it as the doc string.
It's not an issue if the code block already has a doc string.

    >>> class A:
    ...     # watch out
    ...     '''
    ...     def spam(self): pass
    ...     '''
    ...
    >>> A.__doc__
    '\n    def spam(self): pass\n    '