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Are 'Docstrings' same as 'Comments' in Python? Or do they have any special purpose?

As far as I understand docstrings are somewhat similar to multi line comments used in other programming languages, but this is the part which I don't understand: "Unlike conventional comments, docstrings are retained throughout the runtime of the program. This allows the programmer to inspect these comments at run time."

7th Mar 2018, 9:41 AM
Rusty.Metal
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What I got from google: "A docstring is a string literal that occurs as the first statement in a module, function, class, or method definition. Such a docstring becomes the __doc__ special attribute of that object. All modules should normally have docstrings, and all functions and classes exported by a module should also have docstrings."
7th Mar 2018, 9:44 AM
luʁi
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You can use it as comments or that part of your coding related works which will not be a part of code but it will work as explanations or comments.
7th Mar 2018, 12:18 PM
📈SmileGoodHope📈
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the piece of doc string will show up in the ide when you type the associated class/method. the comment won't
7th Mar 2018, 10:52 AM
seamiki
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