Although comments do not change the outcome of a program, they still play an important role in any programming and not just Python. Comments are the way to improve the readability of a code, by explaining what we have done in code in simple english. In this guide, we will learn about comments in Python and their types.
Python comments
Before we go through an example of comments in Python. Lets first understand the need of comments in Python or in any programming language.
A comment is text that doesn’t affect the outcome of a code, it is just a piece of text to let someone know what you have done in a program or what is being done in a block of code. This is especially helpful when someone else has written a code and you are analysing it for bug fixing or making a change in logic, by reading a comment you can understand the purpose of code much faster then by just going through the actual code.
Lets see how a comment looks like in Python.
# This is just a text, it won't be executed.
print("Python comment example")
Output: