Aditya Raj Bhatt adityarajbhatt at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 14:23:59 EDT 2015

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On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 1:04:39 PM UTC-5, Laurent Pointal wrote:
> > Can someone also provide a sort of a 'guide' to triple-quoted
comments
> > in general?
> 
> A triple ' or " string is a Python string, allowing line-return in
string.

What do you mean by line-return in string? Is it newline? Does it mean I
can write -

'''first part
second part'''

?
 
> If it is in an expression (like a = 5 '''a comment'''), then it must
be a 
> valid expression (and here it is not).

What is not a valid expression here?
 
><snip> 
> A+
> Laurent.

Thank you for the fast and detailed response,
Aditya

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