I assume the people freaking out about how dumb python is didn’t bother to read the code and have never coded in python in their life, because the behavior here is totally reasonable. Python doesn’t parse comments normally, which is what you’d expect, but if you tell it to read the raw source code and then parse the raw source code for the comments specifically, of course it does.

You would never, ever accidentally do this.

…you’d also never, ever do it on purpose.

those doing the investigative work, away from public interaction (and possible abuse), are not the root of the problem there

They’re the root of privacy problems, which is a non-trivial issue for many of us.