Python Programming for Beginners: Python Comments

Comments are used in python to provide explanatory notes, documentation, or context for the code. This text annotations are ignored by the compiler.

Creating a Comment

Comments starts with a #, and Python will ignore them:

Single line Comments

#This is a comment.
print("Hello, World!")

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Multi Line Comments

Python does not really have a syntax for multi line comments.

To add a multiline comment you could insert a # for each line:

Multi line Comments with # 

#This is a comment
#written in
#more than just one line
print("Hello, World!")

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Or, not quite as intended, you can use a multiline string.

Since Python will ignore string literals that are not assigned to a variable, you can add a multiline string (triple quotes) in your code, and place your comment inside it:

Multi line Comments

"""
This is a comment
written in
more than just one line
"""
print("Hello, World!")

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