Triple Quoted Comments (Strings)

[Phisatho]

Do unassigned triple quoted strings consume memory or are they ignored by the interpreter?

[pythoncoder]

They are ignored.

The way to check this kind of thing is to compile the Unix build. Write a small test script and issue

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./micropython -v -v my_test.py

It will print the bytecode generated.

This is extremely informative.

[Phisatho]

Thanks Peter

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The question appears somewhat confused though. All "Unassigned" strings are ignored in Python, not just MicroPython, so perhaps the question is intended to be asking specifically about docstrings? Using mpy-cross shows that docstrings are ignored in MicroPython, but obviously not in Python (unless you specify `python -OO`). Also, any reason triple-quoted strings are distinguised in the question? They are semantically equivalent to single quoted strings with regards to whether unassigned strings or docstrings are ignored or not.