Discussion: String Standards

[Qubus0]

My feelings:
prefer double quotes over single quotes: "string", not 'string'
prefer quote escaping over single quotes : "\"hello\" world", not '"hello" world' (see comment below)
prefer single quotes around strings over quote escaping: '"hello" world', not "\"hello\" world"

prefer format strings over string concatenation and str(): "hello %s!" % place, not "hello " + place + "!", not str("hello", place)
except for very simple cases/single concatenation: "hello " + place, not "hello %s" % place

split long strings into shorter ones with string concatenation "" + "" + ..., not str("", "", ...)

print(
   "pretend that this" +
   "is a really long" +
   "message"
)

[ithinkandicode]

I agree with everything here.

Perhaps it would be good to create a new wiki page called Contributing, where we outline the standards we'd like everyone to follow.

[Qubus0]

Typically that is done in CONTRIBUTING.md

[ithinkandicode]

Re: Escaping strings, we discussed this on Discord today (here), and have agreed that we will follow the style guide and always use " to wrap strings, with \" being used to escape them.

In CONTRIBUTING.md, we could also mention that str() can almost always be replaced with %s, and makes things more readable