Mid-line comment in Python?

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wim picture wim · Apr 11, 2011 · Viewed 21.8k times · Source

I'm wondering if there is any way to comment out part of a line, like you can do in c++ with /*this*/. The only comments I know about are # this which always goes to the end of the line and the """these""" ones, which do not work mid-line.

Example use-case: using subprocess and need to temporarily comment out an argument -p 0 from the list:

['../some/guy', '-m', '10', '-p', '0', '-n', '100', '-f', '/dev/stdout']

It would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to comment out a selection, at the moment I just copy the whole line as below

#['../some/guy', '-m', '10', '-p', '0', '-n', '100', '-f', '/dev/stdout']
['../some/guy', '-m', '10', '-n', '100', '-f', '/dev/stdout']

I'm expecting a big fat 'no' but I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask, python has surprised me a few times before.

Answer

James Khoury picture James Khoury · Apr 11, 2011

Actually if you break your statement into multiple lines you can.

Something like:

['../some/guy', '-m', '10',
# '-p', '0',
 '-n', '100', '-f', '/dev/stdout']

should work.

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