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. […] > > So can someone tell me why a triple-quoted string gives a syntax error > if only in one line?
As with all syntax errors in all programming languages, the code cannot be produced by the grammar (here: <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html>, assuming Python 3.x). > Actually, there are other confusions I have too, > regarding using backslashes inside triple-quoted strings to form > multi-line comments, and a general uncertainty about triple-quoted > strings. > > Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted comments > in general? Do not use them as comments in this way. See also my other follow-up. [x] done > Something like how I can just sum up index slices by saying in [a:b], > the 'counting' for a always starts with 0, a is included, everything up > to b but not b is included (assuming this is in fact the correct > explanation ;-)) It is correct: <https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html#strings> <https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html#lists> <https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq> -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
