Gustavo Córdova Avila wrote:
Riko Wichmann wrote:
is there a way in Python to comment out blocks of code without putting
a # in front of each line? Somethings like C's
I haven't seen the "other" way to block-comment multiple
lines of code: triple-quoted strings.
Building on this thought: it's very effective to write all
your "real" triple-quoted strings (usually they're the doc-comments,
but not always) using one type of quotation mark, thus reserving
the other type for use as temporary "commenting" as Riko asks:
"""
def func(foo, bar):
'''this function spams a foo with a bar'''
pass
"""
If you're consistent about it, it's at least as effective as
multi-line comment in other languages for this purpose.
Strings which are unassigned in a source file are dropped
by the compiler, so they don't make it to the execution
stage; they're nice that way.
Not that it matters, but note that the first "unassigned"
string in a file (or class, or function, etc) will not be
dropped but will be available as the __doc__ attribute of
the module, class, function, or whatever.
I guess this could matter if someone was trying to ship
only .pyc files, thought that some critical and/or embarrassing
code was actually eliminated, but found out that it was
all nicely visible in the doc-comment for the module in
question...
-Peter
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