[Webware-devel] triple quote convention?

[Stuart Donaldson]

This may have been discussed before, but it seems like there has been an effort to move to tripple single quotes rather than tripple double-quotes.

What is the reason for this direction? Editors like Emacs have difficulty with the syntax highlighting when the number of quotes don't match up. Using the single therefore gets really confused when you have appostrophes or single quotes within the comment. Since the apostrophe is a common form of punctuation I would think we would like to keep that option open in the comments. Double quotes are less common, and when used are usually used in pairs so the syntax highlighting gets fixed.

An example of the problem is:

'''Here is some tripple sinqle quote text that's got an embedded single quote.'''

From this quote on, Emacs syntax highlighting is in string mode. so code appears highlighted as a string. For more info see: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/python/emacs/python-mode/faq.html

Anyway, I would contend that using a single quote for punctuation is much more common than having lone double-quotes in the text, and therefore a reasonable solution would be to use the tripple-double-quotes.

So I am curious what the rational is for using the single-quotes?

-Stuart-



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