Aditya Raj Bhatt <adityarajbh...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
The only comment syntax in Python code is the line-end ‘# …’ syntax. > In both the interpreter, and the source code text file, doing - > > a = 5 '''a comment''' There is no comment on that line. You have an assignment statement immediately followed by a string literal, which is invalid syntax. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397148/why-doesnt-python-have-multiline-comments > which says that there are no 'true' multiline comments in python and > that all those 'block' comments are actually triple-quoted strings. That's correct. > So can someone tell me why a triple-quoted string gives a syntax error > if only in one line? Because the string literal – it doesn't matter how it's quoted – can only appear where the syntax allows for a string literal. It isn't a comment, so it can't be freely substituted for a comment. > Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted comments > in general? The guide is simple: There are no triple-quoted comments in Python. If you triple-quote a string literal, it is still a string literal and must follow all the syntax rules for string literals. -- \ “[The RIAA] have the patience to keep stomping. They're playing | `\ whack-a-mole with an infinite supply of tokens.” —kennon, | _o__) http://kuro5hin.org/ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
