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Can I say Doctstrings as multiple line comment only? Or it is something more?

29th Dec 2016, 9:53 AM
Sumit Singh
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Docstring is similar to the #comment. Docstrings in particular are placed right after a new function is defined. Ex. def newfunction(): """This is the docstring that explains what newfunction does""" Now if you use help(newfunction) , the docstring is printed. Docstrings are used with help() if you have a mountain of code and need to know what a function does
29th Dec 2016, 4:02 PM
Jess Wolfe
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Not only multi-lines comments, you can assign a variable with multi-lines string literals ;) ( and both triple "doube quotes" and triple "single quotes" are valid... )
29th Dec 2016, 10:30 AM
visph
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