I was thinking of using them only as possibly quotes characters, as students and beginners seem to have difficulties due to this quote-mismatch error. That OSX has smart quotes enabled by default makes this a worthwhile consideration, in my opinion.
-Ryan Birmingham On 22 October 2016 at 01:34, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 10/21/2016 10:17 PM, Ryan Birmingham wrote: > > I want to start small and ask about smart/curly quote marks (” vs "). >> Although most languages do not support these characters as quotation >> marks, I believe that cPython should, if possible. I'm willing to write >> the patch, of course, but I wanted to ask about this change, if it has >> come up before, and if there are any compatibility issues that I'm not >> seeing here. >> > > What is the advantage of supporting them? New behavior, or just more > possible quotes characters? > > -- > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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