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Author r.david.murray
Recipients quamrana, r.david.murray, veky
Date 2017-08-22.13:17:19
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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.
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