Thanks for all your explanations, everyone. Hopefully, I'll know better next time I come across a similar case. Now, to try and understand the rest of Python...
Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+tkaloki=live.co...@python.org> on behalf of MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:28:52 PM To: python-list@python.org <python-list@python.org> Subject: Re: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore On 2020-06-24 18:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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. :) > Not quite. :-) Hyphen is U+2010. U+002D is hyphen-minus; it's does double-duty, for historical reasons. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
