[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/21/2016 10:17 PM, Ryan Birmingham wrote:

> I want to start small and ask about smart/curly quote marks (” vs ").
>  Although most languages do not support these characters as quotation
>  marks, I believe that cPython should, if possible. I'm willing to write
>  the patch, of course, but I wanted to ask about this change, if it has
>  come up before, and if there are any compatibility issues that I'm not
>  seeing here.

What is the advantage of supporting them?  New behavior, or just more possible quotes characters?

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~Ethan~