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PEP 257 recommends using triplequoted strings for multiline docstrings: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/#multi-line-docstrings http://www.python.org/de

• forsaken 13y ago
  A docstring is not a comment. A docstring is actually a string that gets saved on the object, where as a comment is not used at all.
  • quacker 13y ago
    Right, and comments and documentation serve different purposes. But appropriate docstrings will greatly reduce the need for comments.