Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:19:08 +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: >> One advantage is that a dumb syntax highlighter is more likely to cope >> well if the content includes an apostrophe.
> But if the content contains double-quote marks, the "dumb syntax > highligher" is more likely to cope well if you use '''. That's right. But apostrophes are rather more common than quote marks in English text. > And, let's be realistic here, a "dumb syntax highlighter" is more > likely to not cope well with triple-quote strings *at all*. In practice they often do the right thing, what with three being an odd number. -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
