Comments in Python

General non-excutable instruction that are part of source code are called comments. Approximately all programming languages provide feature of comments. In python python programming hash (#) operator/symbol is used for writing some comment lines in the code. After typeing # the next string of characters will be treated as comment in python language.

Comment Syntax

Comment line is written by starting it with # character. In following example first line is comment.

# Displaying Hello World
print("Hello World")

Uses of Comment in python

Such like other high level programming languages, python has also some common uses of comments such as:

It provide description about identfiers (Such as variable constants or methods)
It make source code more readable.
It is also used to provide developer/organization detail.
It does not increase the size of source code.
It can be place anywhere in the source code.

Type of Commetns

Python only support single line comments starting with #, but we can also add multiline comment by using # at the start of each line.

Python multiline comment example

#This is Multiline
#comment consist of
#three lines
print("Multiline comment example")