def ConsumeCommentOrTrailingComment(self):
    """Consumes a comment, returns a 2-tuple (trailing bool, comment str)."""

    # Tokenizer initializes _previous_line and _previous_column to 0. As the
    # tokenizer starts, it looks like there is a previous token on the line.
    just_started = self._line == 0 and self._column == 0

    before_parsing = self._previous_line
    comment = self.ConsumeComment()

    # A trailing comment is a comment on the same line than the previous token.
    trailing = (self._previous_line == before_parsing
                and not just_started)

    return trailing, comment
Consumes a comment, returns a 2-tuple (trailing bool, comment str).