How to comment out a chunk of a single line of code in python?

Question

In languages like PHP we can do the following:

>>> echo "cat is"." not"." dead"
cat is not dead

>>> echo "cat is"/*." not"*/." dead"
cat is dead

What I have done on the second line is, commenting out a chunk of it using PHP's multi-line comment feature.

Please let me know how to do the same in Python without breaking the line of code into separate lines.

Thanks..!

@MichaelSzczesny on that question, one answer is "No" and the other answer expects you to break down the statement in to multiple lines. — Parakrama Dharmapala, Sep 06 '21 at 20:37
Yeah, so the answer is "No, not unless you break it out into multiple lines and comment each line", which I suspect, you still take to mean "No". — juanpa.arrivillaga, Sep 06 '21 at 20:38
I suppose that's one thing you can't do in Python then. Thank you for the comments..! — Parakrama Dharmapala, Sep 06 '21 at 20:40

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '21 at 20:34

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Generally, no. To keep old code around, duplicate the line, comment out one, and modify the other.

answered Sep 06 '21 at 20:34

stolenmoment

This question is already marked as duplicate. But for me, I think your solution works better than the solutions suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5617159/mid-line-comment-in-python Thanks..! – Parakrama Dharmapala Sep 06 '21 at 20:51

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