FAQ: Exploring Data with Python - Dictionaries

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Dictionaries” exercise from the lesson “Exploring Data with Python”.

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[Beta] Getting Started with Python for Data Science

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Why doest single semi colons work like in the example? I always have to enclose code in open and closed double semi colons like these " " for it to work

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Chalk it up to author preference for one form of quote mark over the other. Python itself doesn’t distinguish between the two, single or double.

Following are all valid forms of string data expressions:

  • 'string'
  • "string"
  • '''string'''
  • """string"""

As you progress you will learn the special use cases for the latter two, but as for them being valid string delimiters does not come into question.