Le Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:38:05 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On 19 July 2013 17:25, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> What type of dash is preferable in the documentation? The en dash > >> (-) or the em dash (--)? > > > > They have different purposes; use whichever is appropriate for the > > context. > > > > This isn't an official Python developer position. But all of '-', > > '-', '--', '-', etc. have distinct and common meanings in English > > text. So it's a mistaken idea to think of "which dash is > > preferable" since they are *all* preferable for their distinct uses. > > I don't know about "common". I had no idea there were 3 dash types > until a couple of weeks ago. I thought there were only two > (short/hyphen/minus-sign and long/em-dash). I still don't really know > what the difference is between the two long ones (en-dash vs em-dash).
But there aren't 3 dash types. There are at least 5 of them! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Common_dashes (not to mention that Twisted has/had its own dash, IIRC) cheers Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
