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john peter wrote:
> in java, i can prevent a block of code from executing
> by bracketing the block with comment indicators, as shown
> below:
> /*
> statement1 will not execute;
> statement2 will not execute;
> */
> statement3 will execute
>
> is there a similar mechanism in python, other than prefixing
> the '#' character to the start of each statement i do not
> want to execute (which gets old very quickly if one needs to
> comment and uncomment several statements a couple of
> times while "playing around with code" say during initial design)?

IMO this is a missing feature in Python. However, if the block of code
you are wanting to comment out doesn't happen to contain any
triple-quotes, you can surround the code with those. For example:

def myFunc(arg):
return arg + 2

"""
def myFunc(arg):
return arg + 1
"""

>>> print myFunc(2)
4


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Paul

In article <mailman.2076.1140221235.27775.python->,
Paul McNett <> wrote:
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>IMO this is a missing feature in Python. However, if the block of code
>you are wanting to comment out doesn't happen to contain any
>triple-quotes, you can surround the code with those. For example:
>
>def myFunc(arg):
> return arg + 2
>
>"""
>def myFunc(arg):
> return arg + 1
>"""
>
> >>> print myFunc(2)
>4
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.... and note that, even if the block *does* contain triple-quotes
of one flavor, you can use the other:

'''This is syntactic data: """.

'''