def METHOD_NAME(text, prefix="# "):
    """
    Build a Python comment line from input text.
    Parameters
    ----------
    text : str
        Text to comment out.
    prefix : str
        Character to append to the start of each line.
    """
    # Replace line breaks with line breaks and comment symbols.
    # Also add a comment symbol at the beginning to comment out
    # the first line.
    return prefix + ("\n" + prefix).join(text.split("\n"))