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

[Mikhail V]

On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, 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.

Yes from readability POV, curly quotes would make
sense, and better than many other options, eg. «these».
Also from POV of parser this could be
beneficial to have opening/closing char (or not?).
This only means that those chars should be in
ASCII ideally. Which is not the case.
And IMO not that now code should allow
all characters.

Mikhail