[Python-Dev] On quote styles

[Georg Brandl]

skip at pobox.com schrieb:
> Moving from python-checkins and giving this topic a proper subject.  The
> original thread started here with a checkin by Benjamin:
> 
>     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-May/069181.html
> 
> While Python doesn't have a char type (yet), I still find the distinction
> between 'c' and "abc" useful to show intent (especially given my C
> background and occasional but increasingly rare dip into the CPython
> implementation).  I must admit though that I'm not as consistent with this
> as I used to be or would like to be.  I guess that's because I'm lazy and
> the byte compiler doesn't enforce that style.
> 
> I do prefer to use """ as the triple quote string delimiter because I find
> that for most of my uses it makes more sense as apostrophes tend to be the
> quote chars most frequently embedded in them (I don't do much, if any, HTML
> these days).
> 
> This is, of course, all personal preference, and definitely not
> PEP-8-able.
> 
> maybe-if-we-<wink>-uncle-timmy-will-sort-it-out-ly y'rs,

I think some people use the two string literal types to distinguish between
text (potentially translatable strings) and data. This way, it's much easier
to add i18n later if needed.

Georg


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