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Adding multiline comments using triple apostrophes (#21296)

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@ -15,9 +15,21 @@ Python does not include a formal way to write multiline comments. Each line of a
# This is the first line of a multiline comment.
# This is the second line.
```
Another type of comment is the **docstring**, documented in <a href='https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>`PEP 257`</a>. Docstrings are a specific type of comment that becomes the `__doc__` attribute.
Alternatively you could use `'''` to write a a comment that spans multiple lines to avoid having to use the `#`.
For example:
```python
'''
This is a multiline comment,
everything inside the three
apostrophes will be regarded
by Python as a comment and
ignored when running a program
'''
```
For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `\"\"\"` and be the first statement of the module, function, class, or method definition it is documenting:
Another type of comment is the **docstring**, documented in [`PEP 257`](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/). Docstrings are a specific type of comment that becomes the `__doc__` attribute.
For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `"""` and be the first statement of the module, function, class, or method definition it is documenting:
```python
class SomeClass():
@ -32,4 +44,4 @@ For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `\"\"\"` and
pass
```
String literals that start and end with `"""` that are not docstrings (not the first statement), can be used for multiline strings. They will not become `__doc__` attributes. If they are not assigned to a variable, they will not generate bytecode. There is some discussion about using them as multiline comments found <a href='http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7696924/multiline-comments-in-python' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here</a>.
String literals that start and end with `"""` that are not docstrings (not the first statement), can be used for multiline strings. They will not become `__doc__` attributes. If they are not assigned to a variable, they will not generate bytecode. There is some discussion about using them as multiline comments found [Multiline Comments in Python - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7696924/multiline-comments-in-python).