Difference between " and '

Benji York benji at benjiyork.com
Thu Jul 21 22:47:29 EDT 2005


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Michael Hoffman wrote:
>>John Machin wrote:
>>>b83503104 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
>>>>quote?

>>> >>> ord("'") - ord('"')
>>>5

>>Very zen.

> But unfortunately incorrect, since the original poster 
> didn't ask for the difference between the ordinal 
> values of the single quote and double quote characters

Steven, your reply was one of the most subtle and hilarious things I've 
read in a long time.  Unfortunately I couldn't tell if it was 
intentional or not.  :)
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Benji York





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