Is there a blank indentation in Python?

Question

Over the course of development it sometimes becomes necessary to temporarily comment out blocks of code for testing purposes.

Sometimes these comments require re-indentation of code fragments that could become difficult to take back later without introducing errors.

I was wondering whether there was a "blank indentation" operator, sort of the opposite of "pass"

Example:

def func(x):
    if x == 0:
        print("Test")

For testing, I am commenting out the "if" temporarily, which breaks indentation:

def func(x):
    # if x == 0:
        print("Test")

I want to avoid re-indentation like this, since it's only a temporary change and it could mess up more complex code:

def func(x):
    # if x == 0:
    print("Test")

Question: Is there something like this?

def func(x):
    # if x == 0:
    force_indent:
        print("Test")

Of course, I could do the following, I was just wondering whether there was some sort of idiom or better way to do this:

def func(x):
    # if x == 0:
    if True:
        print("Test")

Answer 1

The easiest approach, it seems to me, is to insert True: # into your if statement.

So

if x==0:

becomes

if True: # x==0

Your indentation can stay the same, and the old condition is still clear and easy to go back to.