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

[Ryan Birmingham]

I was thinking of using them only as possibly quotes characters, as
students and beginners seem to have difficulties due to this quote-mismatch
error. That OSX has smart quotes enabled by default makes this a worthwhile
consideration, in my opinion.

-Ryan Birmingham

On 22 October 2016 at 01:34, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> 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~
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