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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 17:59:20 EDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> that was kind of a throwaway comment, but I think it's a LONG way out, but
> ideally, the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII, a single
> quote and a apostrophe are teh same, and that there is no distinction
> between opening and closing quotes is unfortunate.

So should French programmers write string literals «like this»?

ChrisA


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