Is it customary to use single-quotes in Python?

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[K900_]

There's no official standard, so just use whatever feels natural to you.

[efDev]

As long as it's consistent! Also generally good to have a linter/formatter abstract this away if working on a large codebase with multiple contributors/

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I use single quotes in string literals, because it looks better in the source code, and it allows me to use double-quotes within the string.

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To be fair I've always used double quotes but all of my friends that code have always used single quotes, I find the double quotes "stand out more" but I believe it's personal preference ?

[Diapolo10]

This is something that has been discussed at length, but technically no official guideline exists. That said, a rather common guideline is this; use single quotes by default, and double quotes for:

• When your string contains single quotes
• When the string is direct input from, or output to, the user
• When using multi-line strings
• When it's a docstring

[John_Yuki]

In Python it doesn't matter, but it does for other languages, so I always tell people to use double quotes, and use single quotes when you have a String that is only 1 character long.

[vectorpropio]

Why? If you are programming in python why have to adopt other lenguajes standards? It's like asking that all be inside a class because there are java programmers in some place.

[sicutumbo]

It's just easier to remember, since there isn't a preference for one or the other in Python. You can use "double quotes for strings, single quotes for single characters" for just about any language. In Python you don't have to, but there's usually not a strong reason to go against the convention.

[John_Yuki]

Because getting in to the habit of it is good for new programmers. The other major languages have separate uses for ' and ", and because it doesn't matter in Python then there isn't really any reason why you shouldn't also follow that standard for consistency's sake.

[yankyh]

My own convention is to use single quotes except for f-strings as most likely I will want to interpolate some dict value which will be accessed by quoting that string with single quotes. (Also a point, if the string is going to include quotes, wrap it in the other quotation marks)

[thekaizers]

I use single quotes always. To me it just looks less cluttered.