choice between quotes thoughts

[François Pinard]

[Roman Suzi]

> After some time working with Python I noticed that I use "-s and '-s
> according to the following rule: I use "" quotes when I specify value
> MANUALLY. That is, in most cases.  On the other hand, I use '' where
> quotes are generated automatically. This is consistent with repr(),
> which gives ''.

Observing myself, I noticed that I use "..." for text meant to be displayed
and read by a human, and '...' for more internal, programmatic strings.
It works well for me, to the point I turned this into a personal style rule.

> The same rules differenciate """ and '''.

And similarly for my own style rule about simpler quotes.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard