Quote Styles

Three Ways to Write Strings

Python gives you multiple ways to create strings, and each has its purpose:

Single quotes — the simplest form:

message = 'Hello, World!'

Double quotes — useful when your text contains an apostrophe:

message = "I'm learning Python"    # Apostrophe inside double quotes
# message = 'I'm learning Python'  # ❌ This would crash!

Triple quotes — for text that spans multiple lines:

poem = """Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Python is awesome,
And so are you."""

Single and double quotes are interchangeable — use whichever avoids conflicts with the text inside.

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💡 Rule of thumb: Use double quotes by default. Switch to single quotes if your text contains double quotes, or use triple quotes for multi-line text.