[Tutor] using quotes in IDLE

[Alan Gauld]

"Jim Morcombe" <jmorcombe at westnet.com.au> wrote

> When typing things into IDLE, how are quotes meant to work?
>
> If I type"
>
>employee.name = "Susan"
>
> then IDLE ignores the last " and I get an error.

Quotes should work the same in Idle as anywhere else!
I suspect what you are doing is trying to create a double
quote by typing two single quotes. That won't work.

The types of quotes you can use are:

'text'    = single quote at each end
              (using single quote key, right end of middle row on UK 
keyboard)
"text"  = double quote at each end
              (using the double quote key, shift 2 on a UK keyboard)
'''text''' = triple single quote - three consecutrive single quote 
keystrokes
"""text""" = triple double quote - three consecutive double quote 
keystrokes

You cannoyt use two consecutive single quotes to create
a double quote, like

''text'' because Python sees that as an empty string followed
by a name followed by another empty string which is an error.

Did I guess right?

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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