Strings: double versus single quotes

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer arj.python at gmail.com
Sat May 23 08:51:14 EDT 2020


The interpreter prefers single-quotes

>>> "single or double"
'single or double'

I read a recent quote from Raymond Hettinger saying that the
Python world prefers double ones. If Mr Hettinger is around i'd
like to ask him where he pulled the theory from
https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1259209765072154624?s=20

Guess a personal choice thing ~

Kind Regards,

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Mauritius


On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:20 PM Manfred Lotz <ml_news at posteo.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
> I am asking myself if I should preferably use single or double quotes
> for strings?
>
> If I need a single quote in a string I would use double quotes for the
> whole string and vice versa. For f-strings I mostly see double
> quotes but single quotes would work as well I think.
>
> Is there a recommendation?
>
>
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> Manfred
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