Python does not have such a mechanism. Prepend a # to each line to block comment. For more information see PEP 8. Most Python IDEs support a mechanism to do the block-commenting-with-hash-signs automatically for you. For example, in IDLE on my machine, it's Alt+3 and Alt+4.

Apr 9, 2022 · Among other answers, I find the easiest way is to use the IDE comment functions which use the Python comment support of #. I am using Anaconda Spyder and it has: Ctrl + 1 - Comment/uncomment; Ctrl + 4 - Comment a block of code; Ctrl + 5 - Uncomment a block of code; It would comment/uncomment a single/multi line/s of code with #. I find it the ...

Dec 14, 2019 · Read about using docstrings in your Python code. As per the Python docstring conventions: The docstring for a function or method should summarize its behavior and document its arguments, return value(s), side effects, exceptions raised, and restrictions on when it can be called (all if applicable). Optional arguments should be indicated.

Dec 29, 2008 · Multi-line comments aren't inherently breakable; it's just that most implementations of them are (including Python's). The obvious way to do multi-line comments in Python, to my mind, is to just let me start a comment block with #: and use indentation to show when the comment's ended. It's clean, consistent, and handles nesting perfectly.

Jul 12, 2015 · I have been moving from Webstorm and RubyMine to Atom and I really miss a feature from the Jetbrains editors where you select a code block and press CMD + - and it adds language specific comment

This is probably not the top voted answer because of how VS Code works for different languages. For python code, the "comment block" command Alt + Shift + A actually wraps the selected text in a multiline string, whereas Ctrl + / is the way to toggle any type of comment (including a "block" comment as asked here). –

Oct 11, 2013 · You only type them once and the block is enclosed. This works with quotes for strings, and parentheses used in function coding as well. And probably works for anything that Jupyter knows you normally enclose around a block of content. This was tested on Win7 American keyboard using Anaconda 4.2 distribution of Python –

May 30, 2011 · To make the comment of a block, it is a sequence of keys: Ctrl-K + Ctrl+C and to un-comment Ctrl-K + Ctrl-U. Here are some other very useful keys for Python: Share

May 21, 2012 · In python to comment-out multiple lines we use triple quotes. def x(): """This code will add 1 and 1 """ a=1+1 but what if I have to comment out a block of code which already contains lot of other comment out blocks (triple quote comments). For example if I want to comment out this function fully..

Dec 14, 2019 · Whitespace in Python is too important to allow any other kind of comment besides the # comment that goes to the end of the line. Take this code: x = 1 for i in range(10): x = x + 1 /* Print. */ print x Because indentation determines scope, the parser has no …