Comments

Comments are annotations made by the programmer

Uses

• Comments can be used to explain python code
• Comments can be used to make the code more readable
• Comments can be used to prevent execution when testing code

Creating a comment

• Comment starts with a # and python will ignore them
• Comments can be placed at the end of a line and python will ignore them
• Comments does not have to be text to explain the code

Example

>>> print("Learning Python") #this is comment
Learning Python
>>> 5 + 3 # adding two numbers
8
>>> #print("adding two numbers")
... 2 + 5
7

Multi Line comments

• Python does not have support to multi line comments
• To add multiline comment use # for each line

>>> #this is
... #multi line
... #comment
... print("Python")
Python

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