On Oct 15, 2014 7:04 PM, "Cameron Simpson" <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > > On 15Oct2014 16:09, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:50 PM, ryguy7272 <ryanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> #1) That's very bizarre to mix single quotes and double quotes in a single language. Does Python actually mix single quotes and double quotes? >> >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "mix". C uses single quotes and double >> quotes, right? > > > Yes, but it uses single quotes for characters (a single byte integer type) and double quotes for strings. Python doesn't really have a single character type, and lets the user use either quote mark as they see fit. Ryan finds this unfamiliar.
In any case, it's hardly bizarre; it's common among interpreted languages. Other languages that allow both single- and double-quote strings include ECMAScript and Lua. Perl, PHP and Ruby also have both variants but distinguish between them for interpolation.
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