key to toggle line comment in python

Question

I'm wondering what is the key to toggle line comment in python, because M-; is not working, although it's the line toggle command mentioned in the docs, despite that it's working with block comments when text is selected.

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S: well I could use C-a and put a # or remove it but I'd like to find out about comment toggle.

Answer 1

I don't know which version of Emacs you're using, but there is (will be) C-x C-; in Emacs 25, it runs comment-line that seem to have the behavior you want.

Answer 2

From misc-cmds.el

(defun comment-region-lines (beg end &optional arg)
  "Like `comment-region' (which see), but comment or uncomment whole lines."
  (interactive "*r\nP")
  (when (> beg end) (setq beg  (prog1 end (setq end  beg))))
  (let ((bol  (save-excursion (goto-char beg) (line-beginning-position)))
        (eol  (save-excursion (goto-char end) (if (bolp) (point) (line-end-position)))))
    (comment-region bol eol arg)))

I bind it to C-x C-;.

Answer 3

;; The following code (select-current-line) is due to Xah Lee, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2010-12/msg01183.html

(defun select-current-line ()
  "Select the current line"
  (interactive)
 (beginning-of-line) ; move to end of line
  (set-mark (line-end-position)))

Now we can define the following function (which uses the idea from https://stackoverflow.com/a/9697222/ due to Gerstmann but it is not identical to that answer).

(defun comment-or-uncomment-line-or-region ()
  "comment-or-uncomment-line-or-region"
  (interactive)
(save-excursion (if (region-active-p) (comment-dwim nil)
  (select-current-line) (comment-dwim nil)
  )))

Now you can define a shortcut for it:

 (eval-after-load "python"
'(define-key python-mode-map (kbd "M-;") #'comment-or-uncomment-line-or-region))