Many years ago I, too, had a couple of CS profs who forced us to include too many (usually innocuous) comments in our Fortran and PL/1 code. Perhaps they were trying to counter the natural programmer tendency of not commenting at all?
Forty years of programming later (yikes!), I try to use comments to tell WHY I'm doing what I'm doing, especially when it's not obvious to someone else (or to me in about two weeks). I never use comments to teach the reader what the Python language or libraries do. Cheers, Steve J. Martin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
