Ruff: prefer single quotes over double quotes #2001
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I promise this is the single most controversial style change I will ever propose.
I hate double quotes. The only reason I've ever used double quotes is because black required them. Single quotes are better for the following reasons:
print(repr("hello world"))
displays'hello world'
)Conversely, double quotes are better for the following reason:
However, both black and ruff default to
"
when'
is in the string, and vice versa. So this decision only affects strings that contain neither.We will want to add this PR commit to .git-blame-ignore-revs after merging so that
git blame
still works correctly.psf/black#118 also contains some arguments for and against single and double quotes.