Adding a paragraph of text before an exercise

[oldDog]

I have only just started to learn Python and hope someone will be kind enough to help me. I am reading and doing the exercises from the book "Learn Python 3 the Hard Way" and before each exercise i would like to add a paragraph of text which explains in my own words what the exercise is all about. I don't want to add the '#' character because that will comment everything out and only i will be able to see the text. When i tried using triple quotes i got an error. I don't think putting 'print' before each and every line is the answer either. Would someone help me out here please. Big thanks

[Gribouillis]

Triple quotes should not throw an error. Can you post the whole error message (exception traceback)

''' This exercise is about adding triple quotes
in a python program. A triple quoted string is
a literal expression. As such it is an expression statement.
It can appear anywhere in the program'''

[snippsat]

I don't want to add the '#' character because that will comment everything out and only i will be able to see the text.

Comment # is meant for you and other who read your code.

There is way with docstring in function and class.
Then can look at what's in docstring with help() and __doc__.
Example:

def foo():
    '''The meaning of life, the universe, and everything'''
    return 42

Usage:

>>> help(foo)
   
Help on function foo:

foo()
    The meaning of life, the universe, and everything

>>> foo.__doc__
'The meaning of life, the universe, and everything'

>>> foo()
42

---

Class:

class Bar():
    '''
    This class dos This
    Need to explain more
    '''
    var = 999

    def run(self):
        '''This method do run something'''
        pass

Usage:

>>> Bar.__doc__   
'\n  This class dos This\n  Need to explain more\n  '

Output:
>>> help(Bar)
   
Help on class Bar in module builtins:

class Bar(object)
 |  This class dos This
 |  Need to explain more
 |  
 |  Methods defined here:
 |  
 |  run(self)
 |      This method do run something
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Data descriptors defined here:
 |  
 |  __dict__
 |      dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
 |  
 |  __weakref__
 |      list of weak references to the object (if defined)
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Data and other attributes defined here:
 |  
 |  var = 999

[oldDog]

Hi Gribouillis
I was doing an exercise and thought i'd add a paragraph explaining what the exercise was all about. but, although the exercise was done correctly the paragraph of text does not appear on the screen?

[Gribouillis]

the paragraph of text does not appear on the screen?

You need to call the print() function to see the paragraph in the output:

print("""
    This is a paraghaph with
    my explanations.
""")

You can also do

para = """This new paragraph
explains things even better
"""
print(para)

[oldDog]

Hi Gribouillis
Problem solved now mate.
Big thanks for the help and advice