Comments¶
- As programs get bigger and more complicated, they get more difficult to read.
- For this reason, it is a good idea to add notes to your programs to explain in natural language what the program is doing.
- A comment in a computer program is text that is intended only for the human reader — it is completely ignored by the interpreter.
- Blank lines are also ignored by the interpreter.
In Python, the # token starts a comment. The rest of the line is ignored.
Here is a new version of Hello, World!.
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# This demo program shows off how elegant Python is!3
# Written by Joe Soap, December 2010.4
# Anyone may freely copy or modify this program.5
#---------------------------------------------------6
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print("Hello, World!") # Isn't this easy!8
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