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Commenting in Python

Commenting is used to write text within the code that is ignored by the compiler.

Syntax

#single line comment

"""
   multiline comment (actually a string)
"""

Notes

Can be used for documentation, code descriptons, resource inclusion, readability, debugging, and any other note that the programmer would like to include.

Example

#the code below outputs "I think I am cool"

print ("I think I am cool")

"""
The code below outputs the string:
'Because I am!'
"""

print ("Because I am!")