Friday, April 24, 2020

Comments in Python


The examples given in this blog, input and output are distinguished by the presence or absence of prompts (>>> and ...) : to repeat the example, you must type everything after the prompt, when the prompt appears; lines that do not begin with a prompt are output from the interpreter. Note that a secondary prompt on a line by itself in an example means you must type a blank line; this is used to end a multi-line command.

Comments in Python start with the hash character (#) and extend to the end of the physical line. A comment may appear at the start of a line or following white-space or code, but not within a string literal. A hash character within a string literal is just a hash character. Since comments are to clarify code and are not interpreted by Python, they may be omitted when typing in examples.


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