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It was a small Army Security Agency Station in Southeast Asia that I was doing some work for. They had a shrink and he pulled me aside. In just 10 minutes or so he taught me “breathing”. It wasn’t until the internet that I learned the term mindful breathing. Subsequently I figured out it was some sort of meditation. [..]\ \ He said I was ‘wrapped to tight’. What ever that means. Those guys were all spooks, but I did not have the same clearances. I was an outsider in that regard, but I did eat with them when at their place. I guess he was bored.\ \ He took my blood pressure and then taught me to breathe. Then he took it again. I was surprised at the drop. It hooked me on mindful breathing. It was probably a parlor trick, but it worked. He improved my lifetime health. For that I thank him.\ (from reddit)

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Python multiline comments

Even though stylistically questionable (PEP8 favours multiple multiline comments), one possibility is to use """ mycomment """; when they are not a docstring they are ignored. (source). They have to be indented right though. And feel kinda wrong\ Additionally:

triple-quotes are a way to insert text that doesn’t do anything (I believe you could do this with regular single-quoted strings too), but they aren’t comments - the interpreter does actually execute the line (but the line doesn’t do anything). That’s why the indentation of a triple-quoted ‘comment’ is important. – Demis Jun 9 ‘15 at 18:35