[Python] Skip rows with pandas.read_csv(..., comment="#") but allow hash in the data?

Is there any way in pandas to ignore #-commented lines in their entirety, but leave the # symbol alone in the CSV body?

import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

csv_content = """\
# title: Sample CSV
# description: This dataset
id,name,favourite_hashtag
1,John,#python
2,Jane,#rstats
"""

data = pd.read_csv(StringIO(csv_content),comment='#')
print(data)


Right now we get:

id name favourite_hashtag
0 1 John NaN
1 2 Jane NaN


If no, is there any hope of making a feature request to that end?

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