On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Another good reason to advocate for proper typography. "John 14:5-7" > indicates a range (because it uses U+2013 EN DASH), whereas "7-5" > indicates subtraction (because it uses U+2212 MINUS SIGN). A hyphen ('-' > U+002D) is inappropriate in either case.
Heh. Yes, but when you're seeking the size of a range, you use subtraction. The fact that the en dash and minus sign are both often represented in ASCII with a hyphen is pure coincidence. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list