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On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 23:05:57 -0700 (PDT), vnkumbhani@gmail.com declaimed the
following:

>how works python interpreter for finding comment ?
>if possible find nested comment ?

	Python does not have "nested comment". Comments begin at any #
character that is not inside a string (something inside ' or " pairs).
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