[Python-Dev] Dash (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jul 19 21:29:13 CEST 2013

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> writes:

I'm sorry, I were wrong. Actually em-dash used much more then en-dash in Python documentation.

But, as you've also discovered, many authors will type two hyphens “--” when they want an em dash “—”, yet this is rendered to an en dash “–”. So the prevalence of the latter in the documentation probably does not reflect the preferences of the authors.

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