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Numpy Beginner's Guide (Update)
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Numpy Beginner's Guide (Update)

by Ivan Idris
June 2015
Beginner
348 pages
8h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – commenting code

The most basic comment starts with a hash sign and continues until the end of the line:

  1. Comment code with this type of comment as follows:
    >>> # Comment from hash to end of line
    
  2. However, if the hash sign is between single or double quotes, then we have a string, which is an ordered sequence of characters:
    >>> astring = '# This is not a comment'
    >>> astring
    '# This is not a comment'
    
  3. We can also comment multiple lines as a block. This is useful if you want to write a more detailed description of the code. Comment multiple lines as follows:
    """
     Chapter 1 of NumPy Beginners Guide.
     Another line of comment.
    """
    

    We refer to this type of comment as triple-quoted for obvious reasons. It also is used to test code. You ...

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