Yeah, similarly I removed an EL import that was commented out somewhere.
Git blame suggests they are just remainders of some development process.
On May 15, 2014 12:49 AM, "Simon Liedtke" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In sunpy/net/vso/vso.py:
>
> > @@ -836,4 +861,3 @@ def get(query_response, path=None, methods=('URL-FILE',), downloader=None):
> >          vso.attrs.Time((2011, 1, 1), (2011, 1, 1, 10)),
> >          vso.attrs.Instrument('aia')
> >      )
> > -    #res = client.get(result, path="/download/path").wait()
>
> I don't know if removing this commented line is a good idea. ping
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