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QUOTEexample proves it is a bad idea as well since you are assigning it to what is generally/popularly known as theDOUBLE QUOTEandQUOTEimpliesSINGLE_QUOTEwhich is more correctly referred to asAPOSTROPHE.QUOTEexample for an additional reason - it makes reading strings constructed with it even harder"Hello, my name is " + QUOTE + "My Name" + QUOTEthis is a trivial example and yet it still looks bad. Oh, sure, instead of concatenation you can use replace tokens, too"Hello, my name is %sMy Name%s".format(QUOTE, QUOTE)may just be worse. But, hey, let's try indexed tokens"Hello, my name is {0}My Name{0}".format(QUOTE)ugh, not that much better. Any non-trivial string generated with quotes in it would be even worse."My name is" + QUOTE + "My Name" + QUOTEI actually made that same mistake three times writing the above comment. Can you spot it? If it takes you a bit, it's the missing space after is. Do you format the string? In which case, a string with multiple tokens to replace is going to be even worse to work out. How am I to use it so that it's more readable?