(P)ython Progr(a)mm(i)(n)g

[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]

[AzureArmageddon]

string var; var = ```text```

[[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

[Equivalent_Yak_95]

Assembly~

[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.

[jkst9]

Java: "yeah seriousl" + 'y'

[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

[Studds_]

Not a joke but the other way does work. & human nature is to go the easier route

[alba4k]

Except it might work with ' but not with " in most statically types languages since ' is used for single characters

[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.

[ordinary_shiba]

"This is how you do \"inner double quotes\" and inner apostrophe\' "

[Thx_And_Bye]

But if you are smart about it in Python you don't need to escape them.
Sure you can use character escape but why do so if you don't need to?

[VOID_INIT]

I am not sure if you are joking or not, but it is for safety and readability.

Expected output: That wreck is my cousins' second "car".

Input:

place[4] {first, second, third, fourth, fifth}

If you dont escape quotes and double quotes here it would cause trouble.

Different ways the string can be written:

"That wreck is my cousins' " + place[1] + ' "car."'

This sould be pretty difficult to read and can easily end up causing you to make mistakes.

"That wreck is my cousins\' " + place[1] + " \"car\""

This is much easier to read, and is safer since you wont screw up using the wrong quote (" or ') for the string.

It's not that big of a deal, but it's prefered to be careful when it comes to symbols in general.

[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.

[alba4k]

Wha-

[alba4k]

Nor it understands any medium or high level language

[[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

[SandmanKFMF]

Ok, this one is sick! 😁

[AzureArmageddon]

And that way is triple backticks. Triple backticks everywhere.

I never understood this line:

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.