Dang auto-correct... Should read ... double quotes around "strings" and single quotes around 'c'haracters ...
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 6:28 PM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > is there any reason to prefer " over ' ? >> > > Not really. As an old C programmer for many years I used double > quotes"around "strings" and single word around 'c'haracters, because that's > what I was used to. (This was long before triple quoted strings appeared in > the language.) > > Aside: Given all the various ways to quote strings for display, it irks me > a bit to see repr() still use single quotes in all cases, which requires > display of single quotes to be escaped. (In similar fashion, it would be a > minor improvement in my mind if the repr() code used raw strings where they > would simplify the display.) > > Skip > >> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
