Python rule about the space character surrounding the equal sign

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Unfortunately, and as usual, I didn't provide context and this led the kind contributors astray. I used a euphemism "in my context", instead of providing more detail. After the last reply, I composed the following reply and forgot to post it.

Literal characters like < and > must use single quotes when Autokey is used in a browser. It's where I use Python almost exclusively, using Linux Autokey, to edit and format text in Wikipedia. The process is copying the text and surrounding/enclosing it with Wikipedia's wiki language and pasting it back into the text box of a web page. Some of their wiki codes contains these characters and only the single quote enclosed text works.

To simplify my script management, I made it a universal rule, to enclose everything in single quotes and my troubles are gone.