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Python

Posted by Christian Vasquez
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Christian Vasquez
Python Development Techdegree Student 820 Points

'y' versus "y"

When we're asking the user if he or she wants to proceed, since we want the user to enter either the character "y" or "n", shouldn't the y have single quotes instead of double quotes? For example, on line 28, Craig's code is: if should_proceed.lower() == "y". But shouldn't it be: if should_proceed.lower() == 'y'?

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Megan Amendola
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Megan Amendola
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Megan Amendola
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Single quotes ' and double quotes " both create strings, they do the same thing. People tend to have a preference for one over the other and some coding best practices dictate when to use single versus double-quotes. Python's Pep 8 code style standards don't have a preference as long as you stick to a convention throughout your code.