diff --git a/guide/english/python/commenting-code/index.md b/guide/english/python/commenting-code/index.md
index 0bae0874e0b..6cd90b5875b 100644
--- a/guide/english/python/commenting-code/index.md
+++ b/guide/english/python/commenting-code/index.md
@@ -15,9 +15,21 @@ Python does not include a formal way to write multiline comments. Each line of a
# This is the first line of a multiline comment.
# This is the second line.
```
-Another type of comment is the **docstring**, documented in `PEP 257`. Docstrings are a specific type of comment that becomes the `__doc__` attribute.
+Alternatively you could use `'''` to write a a comment that spans multiple lines to avoid having to use the `#`.
+For example:
+```python
+ '''
+ This is a multiline comment,
+ everything inside the three
+ apostrophes will be regarded
+ by Python as a comment and
+ ignored when running a program
+ '''
+```
-For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `\"\"\"` and be the first statement of the module, function, class, or method definition it is documenting:
+Another type of comment is the **docstring**, documented in [`PEP 257`](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/). Docstrings are a specific type of comment that becomes the `__doc__` attribute.
+
+For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `"""` and be the first statement of the module, function, class, or method definition it is documenting:
```python
class SomeClass():
@@ -32,4 +44,4 @@ For a string literal to be a docstring, it must start and end with `\"\"\"` and
pass
```
-String literals that start and end with `"""` that are not docstrings (not the first statement), can be used for multiline strings. They will not become `__doc__` attributes. If they are not assigned to a variable, they will not generate bytecode. There is some discussion about using them as multiline comments found here.
+String literals that start and end with `"""` that are not docstrings (not the first statement), can be used for multiline strings. They will not become `__doc__` attributes. If they are not assigned to a variable, they will not generate bytecode. There is some discussion about using them as multiline comments found [Multiline Comments in Python - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7696924/multiline-comments-in-python).