Commenting out multiple lines ?

[Remco Gerlich]

Tom <tom at peresys.co.za> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> I miss C style comments for multiple lines like /* */
> 
> How can that be done without doing
> 
> #line 1
> #line 2
> #line 3
> #line 4
> 
> in Python ?

"""
Just put a multine-line string in there. You can make them with triple quotes.

It's not officially a comment, but it doesn't do anything,
so it's more or less the same.
"""

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Remco Gerlich