Comments in Python

# this is a comment

# this is going to be a multi-line comment.

#

# see, I told you, multiple lines

x = 3852.43 # this is an inline comment, try to avoid these

""" This is actually called a docstring.

It can span multiple lines and

A docstring is a string literal that occurs as the first statement in a module, function, class, or method definition. Such a docstring becomes the __doc__ special attribute of that object.

"""

'''useless triple-quoted

multi-line

string'''

Strings, even docstrings, aren't technically comments (they're evaluated, comments aren't)

Sources:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#comments

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/

PEPs are formatting and naming conventions for the Python language