Summarizing the rationale to use 'abc' as string syntax: * PEP 8 https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#string-quotes says "In Python, single-quoted strings and double-quoted strings are the same. This PEP does not make a recommendation for this. Pick a rule and stick to it."
* When I search where the literal string 'foo' occurs, I don't want to make 2 searches (for 'foo' and for "foo"), nor a regex search (for ['"]foo['"]). Simple things should remain simple. A certain canonical way to denote literal strings is necessary for this. (Btw, JavaScript has the same problem.) * The Python interpreter prints strings with single-quotes: >>> "abc" 'abc' So, that makes the single-quotes the natural choice. Bruno
