Coding Style: Quotes

[Michael Stenner]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:05:45PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * John Waycott
> > I'm curious if others have adopted any standards for choice of single vs.
> > double quotation marks to delimit strings. A look through the standard
> > library reveals the choice of one over the other is rather arbitrary. I
> > suspect it really makes no difference, but the question has come up during a
> > code review.
> 
> Python itself seems to "prefer" single quotes slightly:
> 1: >>> "String"
> 1:     'String'
> 2: >>>

I hate to be so picky, but it _is_ after all, my nature... :)

Just because it uses the single quote doesn't mean it prefers it.  It
(or the authors, rather) had to choose.  They couldn't just not pick
one.  Also, the method you use to input the string IS NOT part of the
string, and so should be dropped after it's role (encoding the string)
is complete.  Therefore, your example does not support your statement.

Of course, I suspect it is for just this reason that you quoted
"prefer". :)
					-Michael
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