Shortcut key for commenting out lines of Python code in Spyder

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I recently changed from the Enthought Canopy Python distribution to Anaconda  which includes the Spyder IDE   In Canopy s code editor  it was possible to comment and uncomment lines of code by pressing the  Cntrl    shortcut key sequence  In Spyder I was unable to find an equivalent shortcut key in the introductory tutorial   Is there a shortcut key for commenting and uncommenting code in Spyder

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Single line comment   Ctrl   1 Multi-line comment select the lines to be commented   Ctrl   4 Unblock Multi-line comment  Ctrl   5

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on Windows F9 to run single line   Select the lines which you want to run on console and press F9 button for multi line

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On macOS   Cmd   1   On Windows  probably  Ctrl       near right shift key

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While the other answers got it right when it comes to add comments  in my case only the following worked    Multi-line comment    select the lines to be commented   Ctrl   4 Multi-line uncomment  select the lines to be uncommented   Ctrl   1

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Yes  there is a shortcut for commenting out lines in Python 3 6  Spyder    For Single Line Comment  you can use Ctrl 1  It will look like this  This is a sample piece of code  For multi-line comments  you can use Ctrl 4  It will look like this                    your piece of code   some more code                  Note     represents that the code is carried to another line

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Unblock multi-line comment  Ctrl 5 Multi-line comment  Ctrl 4   NOTE  For my version of Spyder  3 1 4  if I highlighted the entire multi-line comment and used Ctrl 5 the block remained commented out  Only after highlighting a small portion of the multi-line comment did Ctrl 5 work

[python] Shortcut key for commenting out lines of Python code in Spyder

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