Change required in python 3.4 interpretor .

[madanram]

BPO	18708
Nosy	@rhettinger, @mdickinson

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labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-feature']
title = 'Change required in python 3.4 interpretor .'
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[madanram]

As I observed when using python 3.4 Interpretor is that it would be able to distinguish between char by '' and string by ""

>>> input()    
a
'a'

and

>>> input()
aa
'aa'

it would be better if output was
"aa"

but if i want to fix this which file to edit.

[mdickinson]

Unlike C, Python doesn't have any 'character' type: the elements of a string are simply 1-character strings. The two quote styles are mostly interchangeable: again, unlike C, there's no particular meaning attached to the use of single quotes or double quotes.

So you'd be asking for 1-character strings to be represented using single quotes and multi-character strings to be representing using double quotes. That doesn't seem like a particularly useful distinction. Worse, it might even be misleading, since it would suggest a C-like distinction between characters and strings.

As to which file: you're looking for the implementation of str.__repr__, which is in the unicode_repr function in Objects/unicodeobject.c. The logic for choosing which style of quote to use is about 50 lines into that function (line 12128 at revision eeda59e08c83).

Closing this as rejected.