What is prefered: 'string' or "string"? (Should be in PEP8 ?)

[Petr Prikryl]

Well, I have meant what quotes should I use in cases
when only single or only double are to be used (i.e.
when I do not want to include the opposite inside
the string.  Read it what *style* is prefered.

"Philipp Lenssen" wrote...
> "Petr Prikryl" wrote...
> > In other words, should I prefer writing:
> >     s1 = 'first string'
> > or
> >     s2 = "second string"
>
> For XHTML string output, I prefer single quotes
> because I don't have to escape double-quotes
> within the string, e.g.:
> s += '<img src="..." alt="" />'

Here you can also write:
s += "<img src='...' alt='' />"

... so this does not make it clearer ;-)

Petr