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

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Ryan Birmingham <rainventions at gmail.com> wrote:
> this proposed change aims to solve the problem caused when editors, mail
> clients, web browsers, and operating systems over-zealously replacing
> straight quotes with these typographical characters.
>

A programming editor shouldn't mangle your quotes, and a word
processor sucks for editing code anyway, so I'd rule those out. When
does an operating system change your quotes? It's really just mail and
web where these kinds of issues happen. Any web site that's actually
designed for code is, like a programmer's editor, going to be
quote-safe; and it's not hard to configure a mail client to not mess
with you.

How strong is this use-case, really?

ChrisA