R. David Murray added the comment: Just FYI, Vedran, almost everyone gets this one wrong :) I too once thought that triple quoted text used as comments was bad style, but in fact I learned they are an accepted way in Python to do multiline comments. Accepted by Guido, at least: https://sgillies.net/2017/05/30/python-multi-line-comments-and-triple-quoted-strings.html :) It is not a common practice, though, in my observation, since most code editors support automatically prefixing and unprefixing a block with '#' characters, and highlight such blocks as comments while they do not highlight strings used as comments as comments.
It is an interesting observation that to use it to comment out a block of code one should use the raw string version. Hopefully the existence of this issue will make that slightly more discoverable. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray title: Python fails to parse commented out code -> Python fails to parse triple quoted (commented out) code _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31253> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
