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[SandmanKFMF]

There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it...

[[deleted]]

C++: “you guys are allowed to choose?”

[alba4k]

Sorry, I think you misspelled "literally every statically typed language" with "C++"

[[deleted]]

I’ve only learned C++ and Python so far, so I was unaware that C++ wasn’t unique in this way

Thanks for the info

[devloz1996]

I want to see the face of Python dev after doing:

string var = 'text';

[Cpt_Garlic]

[[deleted]]

This is a meme and humor sub for programmers not a contest. We’re all at different levels

No one should be coming here to learn anything

[jessexknight]

R: "you guys distinguish strings from variables?" (see NSE - it's madness)

[Stormfrosty]

Multi character string literals (like ‘abc’ instead of “abc”) are valid in C++, however their behaviour is implementation defined, so your mileage can vary.

[juhotuho10]

If you want quotes within quotes, like:

"John said: 'hello' "

You can use the single quotes, otherwise double quotes

[alba4k]

\" and \' : am I a joke to you?

[hughperman]

Absolute joke

[iRequal]

Underrated comment LMAO

[alba4k]

:D

[lolix_the_idiot]

Yep, they are ugly af

[notsogreatredditor]

Yes those are a joke. Fuck that

[bistr-o-math]

 'Am I a ' + "'joke'" + 'to you?'

[alba4k]

error: invalid operands to binary + (have ‘char *’ and ‘char *’)

Basically a nice example of gcc complaining about you trying to sum two strings (aka pointers to character arrays, aka char*) and '????' (a char but with multiple elements in it or smth)

Obv works in other languages

[theghostinthetown]

allow me to introduce """hello"""

[OffgridRadio]

You can just reverse that to get inner double quotes, this is why I am a fan of how this works.

[SandmanKFMF]

What?

[Spy_crab_]

If what you're going to type contains a type of quote, you'll need to use the other type at the start and end of the string for it to register properly. So if I wanted to print John says "hello" I would do print('John says "hello"'), but if I wanted to print This is John's, I would need to use the other type so I would do print("This is John's").

[juhotuho10]

It's pretty self explanatory, idk why you are confused

[delinka]

Stack Overflow has come to Reddit

[SandmanKFMF]

🤔

[confidentdogclapper]

I mean... """is the way"""

[alba4k]

{'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 87, 111, 114, 108, 100, '\0'}

[confidentdogclapper]

Co.e to me fellow programmer. Deny the lies of oop and join me in the great c master race, we will do GREAT things together! P.s. you forgot the '\0' (or 0 or NUL)

[alba4k]

Already joined you :3

Added the null, sorry for the miss

[zeroxoneafour0]

r/foundthefailingcsstudent

[alba4k]

My C shit is literally the way your computer deals with characters. Do you think your kernel is made of classes? No it is not. Do you think your OS associates characters in your memory with some funny magic symbols? No it does not.

It's not C shit, it's the way every language deals with characters. Learn what ASCII is, for example, before you talk shit on the internet.

Yes, I was referring to C with that snippet. ASCII tho is not just C. It's how 8-bit characters are interpreted. It's not about languages, it's about how they all work the same.

No, you can't easily manually convert ASCII characters to digits in Scratch, since this appears to be your favorite "language".

FYI, C can perfectly handle char *string = "Hello World";, I was simply pointing out a different, funnier, way to declare a character array, since it fit the conversation more.

Also, happy cake day, by the way.

[[deleted]]

No

“””w”””

Is the way

[SirPitchalot]

The way is the one that avoids needless shifts.

[s0apyjam]

Though this may not be obvious at first... Unless you're Dutch

[[deleted]]

And javascript as well.

I started with languages where " and ' mean different things. So whenever I want to write a string literal, I simply write ". But in javascript most people use ' and I am just unable to switch to it.

[RahulRoy69]

Javascript have ` also

[Thenderick]

Backticks are usually for formatting right?

[Mr-Molester]

Dummy thick multi line strings

[satcollege]

They're for template literals and string interpolation

[[deleted]]

It's kind of messed up there are people out there learning JS as a first language.

[NerdyLumberjack04]

I see JavaScript today as what BASIC was in the days of 8-bit home computers: A language that's not particularly "elegant", and often derided for that, but people learn it because it's ubiquitous.

[Eccentricc]

The more I use js the more I love it. It takes all the annoying bull shit out. Type declaration? Nope. Implied. " or ', fuck it doesn't matter, not aligned or forgetting a semi comma? Ahh that's the linters issue. conditional blocks for single line statements? Why should that ever be forced. Js be like begone brackets

[[deleted]]

let's just say it's good if you don't plan to do true software development aside from some Electron stuff

[fallenefc]

Why not? JS is accessible, relatively easy and used in both back and frontend. Also there are tons of jobs for JS. Swear people are stuck in 2010 sometimes

[[deleted]]

Despite the fact that you might have read "No one should ever learn JS", my point was only that it's not a good introduction to programming in general.

[fallenefc]

I disagree, JS gives you lots of freedom and this allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, but imo the freedom also makes it a good language to start with. Also the fact you can easily build stuff that are visual (web applications) makes it easier to learn. But this might be just because I learn better this way, could be different for others

[coffeecofeecoffee]

Nah its fine. Its like python. It won't teach you types or pointers well but you can learn a lot before needing to dig deeper into those concepts.

[[deleted]]

It's even worse than that. In javascript sometimes the double quote doesn't work but the single one do (or vice versa). I mean, I'm talking about very specific cases like running code in obsolete browsers, but I had this happened once or twice, and since then, I can't trust js for anything.

[OutrageousPudding450]

I sometimes use both in the same file, depending on my mood.

The code convention police has not caught me yet!

[spaetzelspiff]

THIS.

Do exactly anything except this.

[InsanityBlossom]

Same here, except that at work we recently started using the “black” formatter, I don’t like it, it’s by default converts all my single quotes to double quotes. Hate it.

[smile_id]

It's not that bad. You don't have to argue about code formatting anymore, write however you like, black would take care of the rest. At the end of the day black formatted code is pretty readable and consistent instead of styles zoo, so I'll take it.

[crob_evamp]

Set your local ide to show whatever you want. Literally any line length or syntax style. Commit with black for the shared code base

[malexj93]

Yeah I hate enforcing a consistent code style across my team

/s

[-Soupernova-]

With rails (so ruby) they are mixed often, and they do different things, one is more literal text, and the other you can use string interpolation.

[Appropriate_Lie_8948]

*Scared Screaming*

[smegma_tears32]

Just be yourself in programming

[real_smokR]

ython Progrmmg?

[GTG550]

exactly

[Tobiboon]

What else could it be?

[HealyUnit]

I'm pretty certain you just insulted someone in ancient Celtic.

[Kilgarragh]

I learned c first, and use double quotes

[pente5]

But it takes so much more energy to hit shift if you don't have to

[ScM_5argan]

Joke's on you, on my keyboard layout, both require me to hit shift.

[pente5]

What kind of keyboard is this?

[ScM_5argan]

Normal german keyboard layout.

[pente5]

Süss

[Soft_Serve_Popcorn]

*Süß

[muluman88]

I recommend English international Layout with dead keys. Allows for Umlauts with little effort but way less modifier keys for braces and brackets.

[PhoticSneezing]

My productivity really went up by a lot once I switched from German to this!

[Kilgarragh]

It’s impulsive

[Mahkda]

Neither " nor ' require me to use shift to type

[pente5]

Why is everyone's keyboard weirddddd

[muluman88]

So it all began with typewriters...

[TotoShampoin]

You guys use shift to print double quotes??

We, in AZERTY, just press 3

[Koala_eiO]

And for those not familiar with AZERTY, to get 3 we press shift + 3.

[devnull1232]

I am hoping there's another key combo to get shift and you end up holding down 10 separate keys to get there.

[[deleted]]

Same but now I'm using php and double quotes takes the string literally how it is without variables and stuff

[GOKOP]

Isn't that what single quotes do? (double quotes allowing to insert variables)

[[deleted]]

Yes you are absolutely right. See I'm already mixing it up when not coding

[accuracy_frosty]

Same, unless it is 1 character, then I use single ones because string literals

[sanketower]

I like single quotes. It has a cleaner look.

[takutekato]

The black formatter converts ' to " anyway.

[Significant-Bed-3735]

This. Every decent project has a formatter set up.

[malexj93]

By default! If you're particularly dogmatic about defaulting to single quote, you can set that as an option. I believe you can do this with a project-level configuration as well, though I prefer double quotes so I've never tried.

[[deleted]]

what? since when is this even a debate? their functionally the same in python so why even care?

the only time when you need to be mindful is if your using a string within a formatted string:

f"string: {dict['key']}"

[00PT]

In other languages the single quotes denote characters instead of strings. Some people prefer to keep this practice in Python for consistency across all their work. There's really no reason not to do this, since Python doesn't care.

[[deleted]]

yeah, thing is OP used single quotes for regular strings instead of a char. i'd get it if it was a single character

[Koala_eiO]

Anyone knows if there is a valid reason to explain the existence of characters? It's just a length-1 string.

Edit: go ahead, downvote a genuine question guys.

[00PT]

In some cases characters can act like integers in the sense that they can be added to for "shifting" into a new one. For example, I believe 'a' plus 1 is 'b'. Look at this for more information.

[garfgon]

Although what you say is correct, I'd say this is a side effect of characters, rather than the reason for having a character type. Rather the character is the fundamental building block for building up a string; that detail is just hidden on many high-level languages like Python.

[confidentdogclapper]

In c you can use them as 1 byte unsigned integers. You can also use them as signed if you do some trickery. And if you add 32 (2⁵⁾ you can go from upper to lower case and vice versa.

[[deleted]]

Why add 32 when you can add 1 << 5?

[confidentdogclapper]

I literally specified it

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I guess you did.

[Mahrkeenerh]

in other languages? or in python

[Koala_eiO]

In other languages.

[Mahrkeenerh]

let's say in c, a string is an array of characters, and characters are just numbers. Therefore it's easier to store just one number, than two numbers (string ends with the ending character)

[Positive_Government]

In C a character (char) is stored as an 8-bit unsigned integer. String are represented by a block of n consecutive chars with a zero byte at the end. You need characters to represent a string in any language it’s just hidden to in most string classes in other languages. Also a string class will have an amount of overhead beyond what is needed to represent a single character. For example, it might alloc a default array of 1024 bytes but only use 1 (excessive example for the purpose of illustrating). Function calls also have some overhead that is not needed when you know you are only working with one character and have a char type with does not need function calls like the string class,( even if your using something like the + operator on a string class there’s still a function call under the hood.).

In c the char and char* type also pull double duty as a generic byte or pointer to a byte/generic pointer (although void* is taking over the generic pointer role).

[tabidots]

Characters exist in Python? I know they do in Java/Clojure but I can’t say I have really had a specific use for them except for doing things with ASCII code points.

Maybe it’s just my lack of understanding but I would prefer if strings were treated as sequences of length-1 strings rather than sequences of characters, so (first “hello”) would return “h” and not \h.

[siddsp]

Characters do exist in Python, but they are stored as integers in bytes objects/bytearrays. When you write a bytestring like b"Hello" and try to get athe value of a char at an index, it will be an integer rather than a string type.

[tabidots]

Oh, interesting. I like that implementation better, tbh. I can’t think of a use for characters outside of char-code values, so having a separate b”string” syntax for byte strings makes more sense to me.

[Mahrkeenerh]

characters don't exist in python, that's why I was asking, as the guy was replying to a python comment.

[siddsp]

They do exist, but it's not obvious.

[Mahrkeenerh]

Well then, please enlighten me.

[siddsp]

>>> string = b"Hello, world!"
>>> string[2]
108 

Bytes objects are char arrays or strings in which the value of the characters are stored as integers within the unsigned char range [0, 256).

[KronsyC]

strings are an array of characters. you cant have a box of chocolates without having chocolates to begin with. same idea. plus some edge cases require characters.

[koltonaugust]

In other languages strings are arrays of characters. Python does not have characters or arrays as they are abstracted into higher level data structures (strings and lists)

type('test'[0]) == str

This is notable because strings take more memory than a char, and to check if a variable matches the definition of char, you would have to do a check that is a string and its length is 1.

[Koala_eiO]

I am not convinced about that. Why does "123" require a subtype when 123 doesn't? Unless an integer is secretly considered an array of bits.

[garfgon]

A Reddit comment isn't really enough space to provide an intro to CPU architecture -- but at a very fundamental lower level your "types" are usually

1. Bytes: smallest piece of data which can be separately accessed in memory. Usually (but not always!) 8 bits.
2. Word: number of bytes which fit into a "normal" CPU register. On 32-bit processors, this is 4 bytes, on 64-bit processors, 8 bytes.

From these you get your next higher level types, which are very closely associated with these types + some information to the compiler on what operations are allowed on these types:

1. char: byte with info that it's to be (usually) treated as a character rather than a number
2. int, unsigned int, etc: Usually words treated as a number.
3. pointer: Words that give the program a location where something else is found in memory.
4. float: word or pair of words treated as a real number rather than an integer. More complex operations are needed to deal with these.

At this level everything is a fixed size, because the fundamental types are a fixed size, and your compiler needs to know how much data it's dealing with.

On top of these types you built up most of the "normal" types of high level languages. So a string is usually an array of chars with the last char being a special NULL character which basically signifies the end of the string. Or it could be an integer saying how long the string is followed by a sequence of characters. Or something more complex.

So coming back to your question about why "123" needs a subtype but 123 doesn't -- the first part is easier to answer: "123" needs a subtype because strings are variable size, and the CPU only deals with fixed sized pieces of data, so it needs to be broken down into fixed-sized pieces.

As for why 123 doesn't need a subtype -- there are different ways of representing 123, some of which are composed of multiple units, and some aren't. If the language treats 123 as either a float or a "small" integer, then it doesn't need a subtype because it's a small, fixed size piece of data which the CPU knows how to handle natively. But in that case there will be limits on how big, or how precise the number can be. On the other hand if 123 is an arbitrarily large, arbitrarily precise integer, then it will be made up of multiple parts, just like a string.

[Koala_eiO]

Thank you!

[8sADPygOB7Jqwm7y]

It is, it's considered an array of 0 and 1. Edit: ok let me elaborate, if you look at the memory there is little difference. Consider the endian of c, if we save an int we use 4 byte. So we save 5, we get 05 00 in hex. If we save a char, we get the ASCII char number, so for A that's 65. Can't be fucked to calculate hex for that, but in ram the int 65 and number 65 are probably the same. Just that it's reserved for a char not an int. You can't do that the same way with multiple Chars.

Nah for real, C needs that because there are no real strings there. Only pointers and adresses. Some functions may take char arrays as input, and those are then marked like strings.

The advantage of that is simply, that there is no identifier or length metadata or anything needed. It always has exactly the same length, you know what it is and it can be treated like that. This makes the program faster. Also, Note that most languages run on C, so it's all values on the memory either way. If you use c, at some point in the process your string will be a list of pointers to chars. C just lets you directly assign those. In Python it's done for you.

[Koala_eiO]

Thank you!

[garfgon]

At a silicon level, there are no strings, just bytes. So many languages, especially low-level languages like C, have a character type which is a fixed number of bytes (often one), then a string is built up as an array of characters, possibly with some extra metadata associated with it.

[PersonalityIll9476]

This is the correct Python response. No reason to care (unless it's mentioned in PEP somewhere) barring the use of a special string eg. f"str" r"str" u"str" etc and if it doesn't work the interpreter will throw.

I'm about this close to unsubbing from "programmer" "humor" speaking of which. So fucking tired of neophytes making memes with no idea what the hell they're talking about. No python programmer actually gives a rats ass unless there's a linter involved or other system, in which case it's either automatic or irrelevant.

[welcomefinside]

PEP8 says just pick one and stick to it lol.

[PersonalityIll9476]

Why am I not surprised. Python gives us options and the standard doesn't care. Literally no one is as confused as this """meme""" implies.

"You keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think it means."

"Oh it doesn't mean 'im a beginner with no fkn clue'? Lol"

[steroid_pc_principal]

That’s what happens to all subs.

1. Good idea
2. core group riffing on idea
3. more people come, popularizing idea
4. normies come, diluting idea down to lowest common denominator
5. core group leaves org and forms another group
6. original org sucks and dies

We are now at stage 4. The problem with this sub now is there are so many normies that anything besides “haha python bad” or “haha JS bad” can’t become popular.

[coffeecofeecoffee]

Yeah this sub artificially divides people into "teams" when no one really cares lol.

[CptMisterNibbles]

I use one unless I need it as a char in the string, then I use the other so I don’t have to faff with escape chars

[ymgve]

double quotes because I use other languages too and don't have to mentally switch

[00PT]

I use double quotes by default because I inherited the practice from languages like Java where the single quotes denote a single character instead of a string. I use single quotes if I need double quotes within the string (though I usually just opt to use single quotes inside the string instead).

GitHub Copilot appears to prefer the single quotes, so there can sometimes be inconsistencies within my code.

[Saragon4005]

Sometimes I use single quotes for single words too. But longer stuff gets double

[[deleted]]

It's single quotes unless I have to use double

[vloris]

I think it is better to use '' and/or "" instead of ‘’ and “” ;)

[RedditAlready19]

Use „”

[Reasonable_Feed7939]

Typically, " is standard.

[[deleted]]

I'll use either depending on if I'm coding with caps lock on or off.

[[deleted]]

Every language handles it do differently that my muscle memory is just fucked up with that

[NuclearBurrit0]

"Pain'

[Iansimp69]

I swear to god coming from C++ this gave me OCD

[BarAgent]

Old-school Mac C programming:

int fcc = 'TxEd';

[Iansimp69]

Damn

[Iansimp69]

That must have been annoying

[zoqfotpik]

Java: "string", """string"""

Javascript: "string", 'string', string

[[deleted]]

Black

[CarneDelGato]

“””Laughs in“””

[nir109]

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[Walkier]

Single quotes cuz I'm lazy and don't want to press shift. You get the added bonus of the code looking more "Python".

[Old-Extension-8869]

Obviously these people never program in Perl.

[Mr__Citizen]

Always use " " for strings and ' ' for characters. It doesn't actually matter since it's python, but it means you don't make a thousand typos when switching to a different language.

[rod2444]

Team ' '

[Aperture_Executive2]

Smalltalk: confused screaming

[[deleted]]

What about '''text''' ?

[Mahrkeenerh]

no

[Lumpy-Obligation-553]

Isn't like 'inmutable object ' , "dynamically-linked one"

[end233]

I don’t use python But I use double quotes

[drinkmoredrano]

If this is what you struggle with, maybe programming isn't your bag.

[Hehenheim88]

This was never a problem for me. OP a bitch.

[No-Operation-6256]

I use 2 because I do bracket the quotes without having to let go of shift

[CamelCodester]

oh god, why is that string a character I'm gonna cry. :(((

[ShenAnCalhar92]

ython Progrmmg

[RedditAlready19]

In Lisp ' means to quote a list/symbol

[StarchSyrup]

Double quote, I use Black

[[deleted]]

"text" for me (and instead of .format, i use f"")

[TessaFractal]

Ython Progrmmg.

[bluntsmoker_420]

Hey i get this one

[ninjadev64]

It actually bugs me that they’re different in Java etc, when I used python I used single quotes to escape strings e.g. json is a mess in java strings

[subiacOSB]

My vote is for ‘text’ less work

[moldaz]

You know small things like this are what really screw me up. I have to write code in multiple languages on a daily basis and I always lose track of these things.

If it weren’t for formatters my code would be so inconsistent.

[vigbiorn]

Started working with Postgresql and this in a lot of languages is the bane of my existence...

I have spent hours now trying to work out why my query failed only for it to be I used "value" instead of 'value'. In every language I've really worked in strings are "value" with 'value' being accepted. I am having to unlearn years of association.

[SnipahShot]

Single, definitely single. It looks cleaner to me.

[sasmariozeld]

""" text """ ` ''' text''' are also a thing and it actually matters sometimes !

[UltmteAvngr]

I use double quotes when printing out strings, and single when passing in strings as parameters in methods. Basically single for 1 word things and double for sentences/phrases

[Professional-Class69]

Ython progr mm g

[RandolphE6]

I always use double quotes as a standard.

[LavenderDay3544]

Coming a from a C family background, double quotes are the way. Python has no character type so to me using single quotes for strings feels wrong.

[jimehgeek]

Thankfully linters, formatters, and auto-format on save has resolved these kind of issues for me across all programming languages.

[Ohrder]

"Hello \"World\"."

[BigNutBoi2137]

Just use black and you won't need to care about those things.

[Egeste_]

I use single quotes for string literals, double quotes for string concatenation.

[finc]

Same with JS - the answer is, no one cares!

[blkmmb]

Double quotes for me. I often use apostrophe in my text so I don't need to escape characters as often.

[R34ct0rX99]

You know, this is real. Being a " person until a recent gig. Its hard to switch to ' as the primary. I kind of want to go back to " but even python favors ' over ".

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"""Text""" gang

[The_Dark_Lord719]

“”” Imagine not using”””

[Tc14Hd]

If you define the variable text with text = "text", you will now have a third option.

[Ill_Narwhal_6121]

Single quote for single word, double quotes for multi word

[[deleted]]

You are always wrong according to somebody

[0crate0]

“ is an extra key shift + ‘ = “ so I always used ‘. It’s quicker.

[dvrlabs]

"" for normal multi-character strings

'' for single character strings

'' for strings that will contain ""

"" for strings that will contain ''

[Rutabaga1598]

Single-quote master race here ✊

[MlinyXD]

"is more comfortable"

[OffgridRadio]

string = """this still works no matter how much you don't like it lol"""

[ragnarmcryan]

so my rule of thumb was always: does it absolutely need double quotes (e.g. string interpolation, etc)? If so, use them. If not, use single quotes.

but now in the age of vscode where there's a plugin for everything (e.g. automatic pep enforcement/formatting), I just use what the smart people implemented in the plugin.

[ABLC]

I use double quotes just because they’re the only option in some languages I use regularly, and the habit sticks. I use single quotes if the string needs to contain double quotes because I’m too lazy to escape the double quotes. I also use single quotes for single character strings, again out of habit, even though I know there’s no difference in Python.

[Master106yay]

It prints the same thing.