On 19May2020 22:04, Manfred Lotz <ml_n...@posteo.de> wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 13:36:54 -0500
Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
On 2020-05-19 20:10, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> I am asking myself if I should preferably use single or double
> quotes for strings?
I'd say your consistency matters more than which one you choose.
[...]
I personally use habits from my C days: double-quotes for everything
except single characters for which I use a single-quote:
if 'e' in "hello":
as in indicator that I'm using it as a single character rather than
as a string.
I don't have a firm rule for myself if a string contains
double-quotes. It doesn't happen often for me in a case where I
couldn't use a triple-quoted string or that I am refering to it as a
single character. [...]
I am influenced by Perl which I used before. In Perl I used double
quoted strings when I wanted interpolation. Otherwise single quoted
strings. In Rust (or C) it is double quotes for strings and single
quotes for characters.
And I, the shell (where single quotes are "raw" and double quotes allow
parameter substitution). So I use single quotes for plain old strings
and double quotes when I'm going to be formatting the string with %
(therefore, in most logging calls).
Personally I find double quotes visually noisy, and prefer single
quotes. Most of the time.
This is one of the reasons I autoformat with yapf (which doesn't change
my quoting) rather than black (which is very opinionated and also
untunable, and _does_ change my quotes).
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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