What is the special character to mark a comment in Python?
In Python, comments are used with statements to give a description of the statement or to signify its usage to the programmer or the program reader.
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In Python, comments are used with statements to give a description of the statement or to signify its usage to the programmer or the program reader.
In Python programming language, the ‘#’ or Hash symbol is used to write comments.
But do remember that the ‘#’ or Hash symbol only makes a single line comment, i.e., using this will only make a single line to be commented out.
To write multiline comments or multiple lines as comments, you can simply use 3 Double inverted commas or 3 Quotation marks, i.e., like this “””<your comment here>”””.
The text written between the 3 Quotation marks will be treated as a comment.
Comments in Python
In the picture above, you can see that the ‘#’ character is supposed to be written again and again at each line to mark it as a comment because ‘#’ is a single line comment. It can also be observed that the 3 Quotation marks has been used only once to comment out multiple lines of comment which helps us in a better way.