On Jul 23, 3:30 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manu Hack wrote: > > by the way, anyone could explain why changing to single quote makes a > > difference? > > > >>> "rb" == 'rb' > > True > > There's no difference between single quotes and double quotes in Python. > My guess is cargo cult debugging. > > </F>
Ha...you're probably not that far from the truth. I just started with python about a week ago, and have had a LOT of luck getting our lab's data analysis routines ported from matlab, with the exception of this problem. I tried a lot of different things to get it working on windows, and I think I got python quotes confused with matlab or php quotes (where double and single quotes are different), tried it, and it happened to work (although I probably changed something else as well in desperation). Of course, as many have pointed out, this does not actually matter in python. So anyway, yes, someone new to a language trying lots of different things without a full understanding of the language could probably be considered cargo cult programming :-). Thanks for the replies though! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
