On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:27:21 +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > 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.
Surely it would depend on the type of text: pick up any random English novel containing dialogue, and you're likely to find a couple of dozen pairs of quotation marks per page, against a few apostrophes. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
