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On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:18:39 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Both ''' and """ work ... but you need to close the comment block
>    with the same thing.
> 
>    ANYway, block-comments ARE (at least now) to be had in Python.
> 
>    Never used P1 or P2 worth anything, maybe they didn't have block
>    comments ???

https://peps.python.org/pep-0257/

Doc strings are a little strange. 'String' is the key word. 

 python3
Python 3.13.7 (main, Nov 24 2025, 20:51:28) [GCC 15.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> # this is a real comment
>>> """this a a multiline
...     string
... """
'this a a multiline\n    string\n'
>>> foo = """ more multiline
...           stuff
...           """
>>> print(foo)
 more multiline
          stuff
There are just strings that aren't assigned.