Difference between " and '

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-07-22, Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVEMEcyber.com.au> 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,
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