On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:51 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:49:36 +0000, Tony Kaloki <tkal...@live.co.uk> > declaimed the following: > > >Alexander, > > Thank you so much! It worked! Thank you. One question: in > > your reply, are you saying that Python would have treated the two separate > > underscores the same way as a long underscore i.e. it's a stylistic choice > > rather than a functional necessity? > > There is no "long underscore" in the character set. If there were, > Python would not know what to do with it as it was created back when ASCII > and ISO-Latin-1 were the common character sets. (Interesting: Windows > Character Map utility calls the underscore character "low line").
That's what Unicode calls it - charmap is probably using that name. > Many word processors are configured to change sequences of hyphens: > - -- --- into - – — (hyphen, en-dash, em-dash)... But in this case, those > are each single characters in the character map (using Windows-Western, > similar to ISO-Latin-1): hyphen is x2D, en-dash is x96, em-dash is x97 > (note that en-/em-dash are >127, hence would not be in pure ASCII) Hyphen is U+002D, en dash is U+2013, em dash is 2014. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
