My CS teacher told me that """ triple quotations are used as comments, yet I learned it as strings with line-breaks and indentations. This got me thinking - does python completely triple quote lines outside of relevant statements?
"""is this completely ignored like a comment"""
or, is the computer actually considering this?
Triple quoted strings are used as comment by many developers but it is actually not a comment, it is similar to regular strings in python but it allows the string to be in multi-line. You will find no official reference for triple quoted strings to be a comment.
In python, there is only one type of comment that starts with hash # and can contain only a single line of text.
According to PEP 257, it can however be used as a docstring, which is again not really a comment.
def foo():
"""
Developer friendly text for describing the purpose of function
Some test cases used by different unit testing libraries
"""
... # body of the function
You can just assign them to a variable as you do with single quoted strings:
x = """a multi-line text
enclosed by
triple quotes
"""
Furthermore, if you try in repl, triple quoted strings get printed, had it really been a comment, should it have been printed?:
>>> #comment
>>> """triple quoted"""
'triple quoted'