[Python-Dev] On quote styles (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat May 10 17:51:06 CEST 2008

skip at pobox.com schrieb:

Moving from python-checkins and giving this topic a proper subject. The original thread started here with a checkin by Benjamin:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-May/069181.html While Python doesn't have a char type (yet), I still find the distinction between 'c' and "abc" useful to show intent (especially given my C background and occasional but increasingly rare dip into the CPython implementation). I must admit though that I'm not as consistent with this as I used to be or would like to be. I guess that's because I'm lazy and the byte compiler doesn't enforce that style. I do prefer to use """ as the triple quote string delimiter because I find that for most of my uses it makes more sense as apostrophes tend to be the quote chars most frequently embedded in them (I don't do much, if any, HTML these days). This is, of course, all personal preference, and definitely not PEP-8-able. maybe-if-we--uncle-timmy-will-sort-it-out-ly y'rs,

I think some people use the two string literal types to distinguish between text (potentially translatable strings) and data. This way, it's much easier to add i18n later if needed.

Georg

-- Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right out.

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