如何判断具有空字符串值的 python 字符串变量在初始化时是使用单引号还是双引号？

Question

Is there any way to tell how an empty string variable was intialized in python? If I initialize a variable with empty double-quotes. Can I later find out that variable was initialized with empty double quotes vs empty single quotes?

>>> test_str = ""
>>> type(test_str)
<class 'str'>
>>> test_str = ''
>>> type(test_str)
<class 'str'>

Thanks

Answer 1

No. The starting quote type merely changes what terminating quote type the parser will look for while parsing the source code. Meaning, if the string starts with ' , then the parser will look for the next ' to know when the string ends, and vice versa with " . That's all. That information is not relevant to anything else and isn't preserved. There are also a thousand other ways to create a string, eg:

test_str = '' "" '' "" + '' + ""

Same result, an empty string. How would you even preserve this information and to what end?