Continuation lines and comments

You can continue a statement on the following line if you break the statement between a set of (), {}, or [] delimiters. For example, look at the tuple that was used in Creating a part to assign the coordinates of the vertices to a variable:

xyCoordsOuter = ((-10, 30), (10, 30), (40, -30), 
    (30, -30), (20, -10), (-20, -10), 
    (-30, -30), (-40, -30), (-10, 30))

If a statement breaks at any other place, you must include a \ character at the end of the line to indicate that it is continued on the next line. For example,

distance = mdb.models['Model-1'].parts['housing'].\
    getDistance(entity1=node1, entity2=node2)

When you are running Python from a local Linux or Windows window, the prompt changes to the . . . characters to indicate that you are on a continuation line.

Comments in a Python script begin with the # character and continue to the end of the line.

>>> #Define material constants
>>> modulus = 1e6 #Define Young's modulus