How to comment a string in restructured text?

Question

The comment of HTML is <!-- .. -->, how can I make this comment block with restructured text? In order words, how can I comment out some of the lines in restructured text?

Answer 1

Check: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#comments

Any text which begins with an explicit markup start but doesn't use the syntax of any of the constructs above, is a comment.

Answer 2

From the reference:

Arbitrary indented text may follow the explicit markup start and will be processed as a comment element.

.. This is a comment
..
   _so: is this!
..
   [and] this!
..
   this:: too!
..
   |even| this:: !

Answer 3

For comments, add 2 periods .. followed by a newline and then your comment indented.

Example:

..
  comment goes here