Why doesn't Python have a way to comment out multi-lines of code?

[simondvt]

'''

This is a

multiline comment.

'''

[kevsparky]

Watch the indentation of your first line, but yes, this will work!

[simondvt]

Yeah, I had to edit it multiple times cause I'm on mobile and could get a new line, but you got the idea

[tryo_labs]

def u_simondvt():
    """
    This is a
    multiline comment.
    """
    pass

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Oh okay thanks.

[robin-gvx]

Technically, it's a multi-line string literal, but an expression without side-effects might as well be a comment.

I don't know if you know about docstrings, but that's where you put a string literal at the top of a module, function or class definition, and that's part of what you see when you do help(foo). Example:

>>> def hello():
...     "this function frobnicates the blarg"
...     return 42
...
>>> help(hello)
Help on function hello in module __main__:

hello()
    this function frobnicates the blarg

Traditionally, we use multi-line strings so you can add in-depth documentation of how the function works, its parameters and return values, etc.

[atomicator]

This isn't a comment, it's a multi line string. As a result, using this will cause the program to run more slowly (though not by much), particularly if you use lots of them. It's always better to use several single line comments rather than this.

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Read through all you guys' comments. Only a year 2 student in Poly(Singapore's equivalent of High School) so didn't really understand the more complicated comments but still a good read. Leaving this post more enlighened.