Python 3.10 Fizzbuzz

Skip Montanaro skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 19:32:34 EST 2023


Dang auto-correct... Should read

... double quotes around "strings" and single quotes around 'c'haracters ...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 6:28 PM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> is there any reason to prefer    "    over    '   ?
>>
>
> Not really. As an old C programmer for many years I used double
> quotes"around "strings" and single word around 'c'haracters, because that's
> what I was used to. (This was long before triple quoted strings appeared in
> the language.)
>
> Aside: Given all the various ways to quote strings for display, it irks me
> a bit to see repr() still use single quotes in all cases, which requires
> display of single quotes to be escaped. (In similar fashion, it would be a
> minor improvement in my mind if the repr() code used raw strings where they
> would simplify the display.)
>
> Skip
>
>>


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