I came across this case while debugging some Python code that contained an error stemming from the use of multiline strings as comments. The code contained a very long list of objects, and I had commented out some of the objects using the multiline string. This caused a string to be appended to the list instead of ignoring the section. Consider the following code:
list = [ Object1(arg), """ Object2(arg), Object3(arg), """ Object4(arg) ] Real multiline comments would produce [Object1, Object4]. The list, in fact, contains [Object1, "Object2, Object3", Object4]. I can't really see a good way to get around this without true multiline comments. - Jordan
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