On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 2:27 PM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:21 AM Manfred Lotz <[email protected]> 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? > > > > Nothing strong. I tend to use double quotes because I have a > background in C (where double quotes are for strings, single quotes > for characters), and double quotes are the recommendation for > docstrings (see PEP 258). If you tend to work a lot with SQL, you > might prefer single quotes. Use whatever makes you happy. > I thought triple quotes are for docstrings? > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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