Difference between " and '

[b83503104]

Hi,

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

Thanks

[Benjamin Niemann]

b8*******@yahoo .com wrote:

Hi,

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

There is none. Except that in a double quoted string, single quotes don't
have to be escaped and vice versa, sometimes one of the two forms saves you
some backslashes:

"That's my house" == 'That\'s my house'
"You say: \"Hello\"" == 'You say: "Hello"'
--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/

[John Machin]

b8*******@yahoo .com wrote:

Hi,

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

ord("'") - ord('"')

5

or ask a meaningful question ...

[muldoon]

b8*******@yahoo .com wrote:

Hi,

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

Thanks

And please settle the dispute between "xxx". And "xxx".

There was a fellow at Oxford who decided these things but I hear he
went mad.

[Michael Hoffman]

John Machin wrote:

b8*******@yahoo .com wrote:

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

>>> ord("'") - ord('"')

5

Very zen.
--
Michael Hoffman

[jepler]

The only difference is when you want to include " or ' inside the string. If
you want to include the "like" quote, then escape it ("\"", '\''). If you
include the "unlike" quote, no escape is needed ("'" or '"').

I think that people new to programming will use '' if it is unshifted on their
keyboards. People from a "C" background may use "" for strings (since in that
language, '' is for a single character only).

Jeff

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[Robert Kern]

je****@unpython ic.net wrote:

The only difference is when you want to include " or ' inside the string. If
you want to include the "like" quote, then escape it ("\"", '\''). If you
include the "unlike" quote, no escape is needed ("'" or '"').

I think that people new to programming will use '' if it is unshifted on their
keyboards. People from a "C" background may use "" for strings (since in that
language, '' is for a single character only).

I find that I switch between the two pretty freely. One habit that seems
to crop up, though, is that I will use '' for internal strings and ""
for strings that will eventually get seen by the user.

Don't ask me why.

--
Robert Kern
rk***@ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

[Steven D'Aprano]

Michael Hoffman wrote:

John Machin wrote:

b8*******@yahoo .com wrote:

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

>>> ord("'") - ord('"')

5

Very zen.

But unfortunately incorrect, since the original poster
didn't ask for the difference between the ordinal
values of the single quote and double quote characters,
but for the difference between the characters themselves.

The question was in plain English, and in my opinion,
perfectly understandable, especially since some common
programming languages do have significant differences
between single-quoted strings and double-quoted strings.

It may shock some people to learn that difference in
the sense of mathematical subtraction is not the only
meaning of the word, but there it is. One wouldn't, I
hope, misunderstand "What is the difference between
spaghetti marinara and spaghetti pescatora?" and
attempt to subtract one from the other, since
subtraction is not defined for foodstuffs.

--
Steven.

[Robert Kern]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Michael Hoffman wrote:

John Machin wrote:

b8*******@ya hoo.com wrote:

Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote?

>>> ord("'") - ord('"')
5

Very zen.

But unfortunately incorrect, since the original poster
didn't ask for the difference between the ordinal
values of the single quote and double quote characters,
but for the difference between the characters themselves.

It was a joke, I believe, not a serious answer.

--
Robert Kern
rk***@ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

[Benji York]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Michael Hoffman wrote:

John Machin wrote:

b8*******@ya hoo.com wrote:
Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
quote? >>> ord("'") - ord('"')
5

Very zen.

But unfortunately incorrect, since the original poster
didn't ask for the difference between the ordinal
values of the single quote and double quote characters

Steven, your reply was one of the most subtle and hilarious things I've
read in a long time. Unfortunately I couldn't tell if it was
intentional or not. :)
--
Benji York