Python Comments

Comments are a way to document your Python script. There are several ways to use comments but the best advice we can give is to use them as much as possible! There are a few ways to make a comment in Python.

Individual Lines

You can start a line with a pound/hash (#) sign, or put one anywhere in a normal line of code.

# this is a comment
print 'Hello world' # this is also a valid comment

Blocks of Lines

You can start and end a section of comments with a triple quote (''' or """)

'''
This is a lot of text
that you want to show as multiple lines of
comments
Script written by Professor X.
Jan 5, 1990
'''
print 'Hello world'

Comment many lines with a keyboard shortcut

You can use the Ctrl-/ keyboard shortcut to comment several lines of code at once. Just highlight 1 or more lines of code and hold the Ctrl key and press /

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