Request: ability to use double quotes

[jamesbraza]

Python black prefers double quotes: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/current_style.html#strings

Since I use Python, I like my YAML to use double quotes too. Running this tool on my repo moves it to use single quotes:

-        if: "github.event_name == 'release' && github.event.action == 'published'"
+        if: github.event_name == 'release' && github.event.action == 'published'

There is the --preserve-quotes option, which leads to not touching quotes at all. I actually like when this tool makes changes like this, so I want to keep --preserve-quote on:

-                  cache: "pip"
+                  cache: pip

My request is to add a new option resembling black's --skip-string-normalization that will just not convert double quotes to single quotes.

[aeisenbarth]

To me, black's description for --skip-string-normalization sounds analog to --preserve-quotes:

If this option is given, strings are left unchanged instead.

Is that your request, or rather an option to enforce a certain type of quotes?
For my project, I wanted to enforce double quotes because:

1. unquoted strings in YAML can cause unexpected behavior (no → bool, trailing spaces being included in strings…) and
2. the preferred type of quotes depends on the context and should be configurable.

How should such an option look like?

• --preserve-quotes | --single-quotes | --double-quotes
• --quotes="preserve" | --quotes="single" | --quotes="double"
• --quotes-style=…

[jamesbraza]

Yeah @aeisenbarth, thanks for the follow up question. I agree in hindsight my OP was a little vague. I am interested in the ability to format with double quotes as opposed to single quotes. I think your proposed options --double-quotes or --quotes=double look great