Python strings are very flexible, but if we try to create a string that occupies multiple lines we find ourselves face-to-face with a SyntaxError. Python offers a solution: multi-line strings. By using three quote-marks (""" or ''') instead of one, we tell the program that the string doesn’t end until the next triple-quote. This method is useful if the string being defined contains a lot of quotation marks and we want to be sure we don’t close it prematurely.

leaves_of_grass = """
Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than
  before known,
Arouse! for you must justify me.
"""

In the above example, we assign a famous poet’s words to a variable. Even though the quote contains multiple linebreaks, the code works!

If a multi-line string isn’t assigned a variable or used in an expression it is treated as a comment.