Mid-line comment in Python?

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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.

Asked By: wim

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Answer 1

You are correct, the answer is a big fat NO.

Answered By: bradley.ayers

Answer 2

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.

Answered By: James Khoury

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