A backslash in a Python string indicates the beginning of a control command, for e.g. text\n adds a new line after 'text'. If backslashes in strings shall not be interpreted as commands a r must precede the string. That is usually the case if the string contains a Windows directory, i.e. folder=r'C:\u'.
However, if I want to comment several lines by """ I get an error
"""
folder=r'C:\u'
"""
(unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 13-14: truncated \uXXXX escape
If I comment line by line by # then there is no error, however this method is not comfortable for commenting a whole block:
#folder=r'C:\u'
How to comment a whole a block of code that contains strings with backslashes?
Python 3.10.9, IPython 8.7.0, Spyder 5.4.2, Windows 10
Edit
I am not looking for answers or comments in the sense "Don't use Windows, use Linux!"
You can add the r prefix to a triple-quoted docstring to make it a raw string literal:
r"""
folder=r'C:\u'
foo='bar'
"""
Excerpt from PEP-257:
Use
r"""raw triple double quotes"""if you use any backslashes in your docstrings.