Coding Style: Quotes

[Chris McDonough]

I use single quotes most of the time, but that's just because I'm lazy 
and if I use single quotes I don't need to press the shift key so much. ;-)

Michael Chermside wrote:
> Oren Tirosh wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:25:11PM +0000, John Waycott wrote:
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>>> I'm curious if others have adopted any standards for choice of single 
>>> vs.
>>> double quotation marks to delimit strings. [...]
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>> The default repr of a string uses single quotes unless the string 
>> contains a single quote. Most of the time I use the same convention 
>> but I'm not 100% consistent.
>>
>> For docstrings I always use triple double-quotes even if the docstring 
>> fits in a single line.
>>
>> I use triple single-quotes to comment out blocks of code. This is very 
>> useful since "if 0:" would require re-indentation.
>>
>>     Oren
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> Encouragingly, I use EXACTLY the same conventions and practices that 
> Oren does, having developed them independently for the same reasons.
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> -- Michael Chermside
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