Normalise string prefix order (#2297)

[etc/vim.git] / docs / the_black_code_style / current_style.md

diff --git a/docs/the_black_code_style/current_style.md b/docs/the_black_code_style/current_style.md
index aa2dd881a9ea8a520673a9eb951b3844489c66d5..11fe2c8cceb6fe84b8690b102b73fb410328090e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/the_black_code_style/current_style.md
+++ b/docs/the_black_code_style/current_style.md
@@ -233,10 +233,10 @@ _Black_ prefers double quotes (`"` and `"""`) over single quotes (`'` and `'''`)
 will replace the latter with the former as long as it does not result in more backslash
 escapes than before.
 
-_Black_ also standardizes string prefixes, making them always lowercase. On top of that,
-if your code is already Python 3.6+ only or it's using the `unicode_literals` future
-import, _Black_ will remove `u` from the string prefix as it is meaningless in those
-scenarios.
+_Black_ also standardizes string prefixes. Prefix characters are made lowercase with the
+exception of [capital "R" prefixes](#rstrings-and-rstrings), unicode literal markers
+(`u`) are removed because they are meaningless in Python 3, and in the case of multiple
+characters "r" is put first as in spoken language: "raw f-string".
 
 The main reason to standardize on a single form of quotes is aesthetics. Having one kind
 of quotes everywhere reduces reader distraction. It will also enable a future version of
@@ -275,14 +275,13 @@ for both quotations and the text within, although relative indentation in the te
 preserved. Superfluous trailing whitespace on each line and unnecessary new lines at the
 end of the docstring are removed. All leading tabs are converted to spaces, but tabs
 inside text are preserved. Whitespace leading and trailing one-line docstrings is
-removed. The quotations of an empty docstring are separated with one space.
+removed.
 
 ### Numeric literals
 
 _Black_ standardizes most numeric literals to use lowercase letters for the syntactic
 parts and uppercase letters for the digits themselves: `0xAB` instead of `0XAB` and
-`1e10` instead of `1E10`. Python 2 long literals are styled as `2L` instead of `2l` to
-avoid confusion between `l` and `1`.
+`1e10` instead of `1E10`.
 
 ### Line breaks & binary operators