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

[Jonathan Goble]

Interesting idea. +1 from me; probably can be as simple as just having the
tokenizer interpret curly quotes as the ASCII (straight) version of itself
(in other words, " and the two curly versions of that would all produce the
same token, and same for single quotes, eliminating any need for additional
changes further down the chain). This would help with copying and pasting
code snippets from a source that may have auto-formatted the quotes without
the original author realizing it.

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:46 AM Ryan Birmingham <rainventions at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
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