A bit of a hack of course, but you can enclose the code that should be commented out with ''' and ''' or """ and """ (not sure about the name of this tripple-quoting) OTOH, some (or even most if not all) Python editors support blockquoting by pushing a button or using shortcuts. SPE and IDLE for example.
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