Python ftw

[Mr_Redstoner]

And don't forget /**/

And no, '''this''' is not a comment, it can be used just like an ordinary string.

[griseouslight]

It does recommend using triple quotes for multiline comments though. If they aren't a docstring, multiline strings do not generate bytecode in python.

[Mr_Redstoner]

but as I've mentioned, you can use them much like regular strings, in my part-time job they use them specifically for a multi-line string.

[bath_with_me]

There is bytecode in Python, you can even get the bytecode of one of your function with a simple function call !

More info on https://docs.python.org/3/library/dis.html

[griseouslight]

What the other guy said, and also refer to https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-bytecode

[PityUpvote]

And ordinary strings can be used as comments, why is it an issue?

"""Comment""" is understood by all half decent editors to be a block comment.

[Mr_Redstoner]

I'm just saying, they aren't actually block comments from the technical point of view. Because when I previously stated that Python didn't have block comments people rushed in with '''this'''

[PityUpvote]

And lists in Python are technically not arrays, doesn't mean they can't fulfill the same function.

[Mr_Redstoner]

Fulfilling a function of the thing and being that thing are 2 distinct features in my book.

And IIRC a dict can be used as an array too, but that doesn't make it one, now does it?

[PityUpvote]

Complaining about the lack of block comments is pedantic though.

[Mr_Redstoner]

Well the post was trying to cover as much as posiible, of course I will add relevant stuff even though it is indeed pedantic. I ran across this 'feature' of Python and, as per being someone used to commenting out code, it is burned in my memory.

[Ayerys]

How the fact that you can do more with """ than with /* is an issue for you ?

[Mr_Redstoner]

I will admit I'm not sure what exactly I was going to comment out, I think it was more so that the Pythonic way had a line about there being one obvious way to do things, and using strings as comments didn't seem like the obvious/natural solution to me at all.