On Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:28:01 PM UTC-5, rusi wrote:
> On Apr 5, 4:06 pm, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > > JSON expects double-quote marks, not single:
> > > v = json.loads("{'test':'test'}") fails
> > > v = json.loads('{"test":"test"}') succeeds
> >
> > You mean JSON expects a string with valid JSON?
> > Quelle surprise.
>
> Are there languages (other than python) in which single and double
> quotes are equivalent?
Fortran 90 and more recent versions.
>
> [No I dont claim to know all the languages out there, just that I dont
> know any other language which allows single and double quotes to be
> interconvertible like python does]
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:28:01 PM UTC-5, rusi wrote:
> On Apr 5, 4:06 pm, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > > JSON expects double-quote marks, not single:
> > > v = json.loads("{'test':'test'}") fails
> > > v = json.loads('{"test":"test"}') succeeds
> >
> > You mean JSON expects a string with valid JSON?
> > Quelle surprise.
>
> Are there languages (other than python) in which single and double
> quotes are equivalent?
>
> [No I dont claim to know all the languages out there, just that I dont
> know any other language which allows single and double quotes to be
> interconvertible like python does]
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