What is the difference between "string" and "Character" in Python?

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What is the difference between the string and Character?

For example:

print 'Olá, mundo!'

print "Olá, mundo!"

Since the two in theory are the same thing, right?

PS.: I opened XML to do my color editing, and in Python XML comes a color for string and a color for Character.

When I use the double quotes gets a color and single quotes changes. But only that it rotates normally.

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    There are two strings.

  • I know there are two strings. Only in the python xml documentation, the command for string comes from a color, in case " " and Character comes with another color in case ' '.

  • From https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_strings.htm Python does not support a Character type. So apparently Python doesn’t have a Character type, only string.

  • And the recommended in Python are simple quotes.

  • Um,,, got it! Thanks, and liked the site too.

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  • Honestly, I don’t understand what he meant by "comes a color for string and a color for Character".

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Pyhton doesn’t have the type char or something like that, it’s just strings, if you want to have a character just use a string that has only one character. If you want a number value that is equivalent to a character use a numeric type that stores the character table number.

If comparing to C or other similar languages that uses apostrophes to delimit the type char and quotes to delimit strings, So in Python this makes no sense, both notations are equal and can be used freely as long as they follow the pair, can’t open with and try to close with another. This is useful for using the delimiter character itself within a string without having to escape him.

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