On Mar 7, 6:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I believe it is one of those things that everybody (for some value of > "everybody") does because that's what they were taught to do
Actually I was never taught to, and I never learnt about it anywhere. I started to do it spontaneously in order to tell apart end-of-sentence periods from abbreviation periods. Anyway, I don't think it's something people should be forced to do. -- Roberto Bonvallet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list