On Apr 6, 6:55 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:28:01 -0700, rusi wrote: > > Are there languages (other than python) in which single and double > > quotes are equivalent? > > Classic REXX, CSS, JavaScript, Lua, Prolog, XPath, YAML, Modula-2, HTML, > and (of course) English. There may be others. > > Other languages like Perl, PHP and Ruby support alternate delimiters with > slightly different semantics. > > -- > Steven
Prolog: seems to be different, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4391435/how-to-manipulate-strings-in-prolog yaml: double seems to be like python triple, ie multi-line allowed whereas single does not allow multi-line http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#single%20quoted%20style/syntax -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
