I am new to python and question may sound silly but I wanted to clear it. While learning I came across code where python is allowing triple quotes(""") both as multi-line comment and also as string literal. So how does python knows if it is intended as comment or a string literal.
"""This
is treated
as comment
and ignored"""
a = """It is
treated as
string literal"""
print(a)
Output:-
It is
treated as
string literal
Essentially, if the triple quotation marks aren’t assigned to a variable or a doc string, python will ignore it. For example
""""This is a module-level docstring""""
def randomFunction():
"""This will be treated as a docstring,
so if you were to run help(randomFunction) it
will display whatever is in here"""
a = """This is actually assigned to a variable,
and thus python will interpret it as such"""
"""This by itself is just an unassigned string variable """
The same happens with strings, which are inside two quotes.