Python: How do I bus multiple lines of code in a function so that they can be turned off with a single # to change all to a comment?

Question

That's basically it.

I have a function that is called to process text and translate it into something else. The GUI doesn't allow me to copy paste inside the virtual environment, so I added some dev options on the backend to print what is input through the console so I can copy it and paste it into another document on the side.

Anyways, I basically just want to bus multiple print statements so that ....

OK I'm dumb I solved this and just rephrased everything as a single print statement with commas, but can anyone humor me and nonetheless tell me how to group multiple lines of code and be able to essentially turn them off with a switch on the backend?

I fixed it by changing

print(thing_1)
print("\n")
print(thing_2)
print("\n")

to:

print(thing_1, "\n", thing_2, "\n")

Answer 1

if True:
    print(thing_1)
    print("\n")
    print(thing_2)
    print("\n")

Change True to False and they're "commented out".

Use a boolean variable if you want "a switch on the backend".

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If this is purely about printing information, then use logging. Change the logging level between debug, info or warning to have less and less output. There's quite a bit of information about logging in Python; you could start with the logging cookbook.