On 09 Feb 2006 12:54:04 +0000 (GMT) Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Just to present a complete picture, not mentioned in > >this > thread are triple-quoted strings: > >> [ ... ] > >Also in the mode of beating a dead horse ... ;-) > > > >Some people prefer to use single quotes for 'labels' > >(i.e. a name which is meaningful to the program, but not > >to the user), and reserve either double-quotes or > >triple-double-quotes for text to be shown to the user. > > [ ... ] > > Hmm, I made both these points a couple of posts upthread, > but it didn't appear to get through the news->mail > gateway.
Ah well, it all came up on the list about a month or two ago anyway (I guess. I don't know, maybe it was a year ago), so I'm just repeating it. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
