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title: "How do you write a comment in Python?"  
description: "How do you write a comment in Python?"  
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published: 2025-04-22  
updated: 2025-04-27  
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# How do you write a comment in Python?

How do you write a comment in Python?

## Replies

### Reply by Khushi Singh

[Python](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337998/how-to-improve-python-coding-skills) interpreters ignore all lines of code that contain comments within the programming code. The purpose of comments within Python code includes description functionality and note-taking features and testing-related temporary code disabling. Developer comments serve as essential tools for understanding code segments which become more critical after developers return to work on that code either later or when sharing it with others.

The # symbol marks the beginning of single-line comments in the [Python programming language.](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337998/how-to-improve-python-coding-skills) The interpreter ignores everything that comes after the # symbol on that particular line, thus making it a comment.

The [Python language](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337998/how-to-improve-python-coding-skills) lacks dedicated syntax to mark multi-line comments just as other programming languages do. The Python code demands multiple single-line comments formed by utilizing '#' symbols placed at the beginning of each code line. The use of triple quotes (''' or ""') allows developers to write multi-line strings which they treat as comments. But these strings do not receive any variable assignment. String literals make up triple-quoted strings even though Python does not recognize them as official comments.

## The following procedure describes how to add comments in Python code:

```python
# This is a single-line comment explaining the next line
x = 5  # This comment explains that x is set to 5
# Multi-line comment using multiple #
# This section of code initializes variables
y = 10
z = x + y
"""
This is a multi-line string that can also be
used as a comment, but technically it is a string
that is not assigned to any variable.
"""
print(z)
```

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