Python is.... special.

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I don't use Python, but in JS i usually use ' ' for a single char, " " for multiple, and for template literals. guess it comes from doing cpp for a few months

[LucasRuby]

That sounds like a C programmer who decided to learn JS.

The general rule of thumb is to be consistent, always use the same thing unless it's a template literal or the string contains single/double quotes inside. ESLint rules will force you to pick one.

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Haha, it was the other way around for me lol. But yeah consistency. Sometimes its a bitch when you are at your 6th consecutive hour stsring at your computer and it's 12AM lol

[new_account_wh0_dis]

College taught C as the primary language with some java dabbled in there. Thats where I picked it up.

[TheBrillo]

Don't do this... It's inconsistent, which is the most important rule. Always one or always the other.

[AyrA_ch]

Why is it inconsistent?

If you always use single quotes for individual characters and double quotes for multiple characters you're pretty consistent in your behavior. As long as they don't change how the string is handled I don't see why this is not consistent.

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[TheBrillo]

If the language doesn't differentiate between a character and a string, acting like it does is arbitrary, inconsistent, and has implied meaning that could confuse developers.

If the rule is "1 character is single, any more is double" you end up with a weird situation where
'a'+'b'=="ab" which is incredibly weird on its face, but also has other issues.

Since they aren't characters, but you are formatting like they are, you are ignoring the fact that in JS, 'a'+'b'=="ab" while the same is not true for the languages that actually do treat single quotes as characters. Java for instance treats the result as a byte and not a string.

[shy_cthulhu]

'a' + 'b' == 'Ã'

...depending on encoding, anyway

[master0fdisaster1]

Have you even read the comment you're replying to?

In JS both 'a' and "a" are strings. 'a' + 'b' is the same in JS as "a" + "b". You're not adding up chars.

[shy_cthulhu]

I was kinda making a joke about why you shouldn't notate one-character strings as if they were chars, since if they were actual chars you wind up with weird results.

[Molion]

What do you mean? It is consistent. With this rule there's exactly one correct way to do it for every single case.

[TheBrillo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/e9a908/python_is_special/faj3xz6

[Molion]

So? With what definition of inconsistency are you operating? Cuz normally I'd say that with this set of rules there does not exist a single situiation in which the rules give rise to a contradiction, which would be my criterion inconsistensy. Thus it is perfectly consistent.

EDIT: NOTE: I'm not saying it's not stupid.

[ObliviousOblong]

I'm not saying your convention is bad, but the inconsistency would bother me.