Aditya Raj Bhatt wrote:
> I always do single line comments with # but just for the sake of it I
> tried it with ''' ''' and it gives me a syntax error.
>
> In both the interpreter, and the source code text file, doing -
>
> a = 5 '''a comment'''
>
> results in a syntax error, with the very last quote at the end of the
> line highlighted in red. Of course, if I do -
>
> a = 5 #'''a comment'''
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> Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted comments
> in general?
A triple ' or " string is a Python string, allowing line-return in string.
If it is in an expression (like a = 5 '''a comment'''), then it must be a
valid expression (and here it is not).
You can have an expression alone, with no stored result (ie. no assignment
to a name), and this is how are used triple quoted strings as comments.
a = 5
"""a comment"""
Take care of indent:
def f(x):
a = 5
"""an correctly indented expression to be
inside the function"""
return a * x
A+
Laurent.
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