alt Hacker NewsUsing a consistent string delimiter has value: if you search for ['foo'] you will find all instances of the string foo. With inconsistent delimiters, you better have a single canonical 'foo' in your project or you're going to run into problems.
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maratc • yesterday at 12:49 PM
See if you know where this leads before clicking on it: https://xkcd.com/208/
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jason1cho • yesterday at 4:04 PM
When a string contains strange characters, how do you enforce the single consistent delimiter?
You probably haven't written diverse enough code.
The inverse is also true (speaking from PHP, I'm not 100% familiar with Python semantics). If we use '' where appropriate, then we know absolutely no escaping and no interpolation is done. That has value. If we use "" for everything, then we have to examine the string for interpolation or for escaping.