Codig style: " or """

[Steve Holden]

Sara Khalatbari wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Suppose you're writing a module & writing the
> definition of each function in that module in " or
> """.
> for example:
> a) "This function does this & that"
> or:
> b)  """This function does blah blah blah"""
> 
> What are the differences between " and """ ? 
> I'm using gedit & I wanna know a bit about coding
> style.
> 
Generally speaking """ ... """ is reserbed for multiline string constats 
and those whihc need to contain both single and double quotes - such as

"""Python's quotes are "'" and '"'"""

or
"""\
This is a multiline
string that has one newline in it."""

[Note that there is no starting newline in the second example, as I 
escaped it off with the \].

> To be very honest: I have a very strict boss who looks
> for bugs in my codes & he insists to know exactly
> which 'CODING STYLE AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE' I've based
> my coding style on when using " or """.
> 
> Can anybody out there give me some hint?
> Can anybody tell me where to find a document on python
> coding style.
> 
> tnx,
> Sara
> 
Sara:

Show your boss

   http://python.org/peps/pep-0008.html

Be sure he understands that you are not responsible for the title :-)

regards
  Steve
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