FW: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore
Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Tony Kaloki<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 23 June 2020 19:45 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore Hi Guys, I’ve just begun to learn basic computer programming by downloading Python and Pycharm and following Youtube tutorials. But I’ve come across a problem that’s stopped me in my tracks. When I try to do a long underscore __ for classes in Pycharm, it only gives me two separate single underscores _ _. This is only in Pycharm, no problems anywhere else. Could you tell me how to fix this, because I can’t find any answers on the web and I’m not sure if I can go any further in my learning without being able to get long underscores. Sorry if I’m just being really dense, but like I said I’m an absolute beginner. Thanks for your time, Tony Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore
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? In any case, thanks again for your quick and easy to follow - even for me - reply. Tony Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Alexander Neilson Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:28:37 PM To: Tony Kaloki Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore Hi Tony The “long underscore” (often called Dunder as “double underscore”) is actually two underscores as you are seeing shown in PyCharm. However the display of it as one long underscore is a ligature (special font display to communicate clearer) and to enable these in PyCharm go to the settings dialog (depending on windows or Mac this could be in different locations) and select Editor > Font In that screen select “enable font ligatures” and if your font supports it (like the default JetBrains Mono does) that will start to display the double underscores as a single long underscore. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited 021 329 681 [email protected] > On 24/06/2020, at 07:57, Tony Kaloki wrote: > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 > > From: Tony Kaloki<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: 23 June 2020 19:45 > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore > > > Hi Guys, > I’ve just begun to learn basic computer programming by > downloading Python and Pycharm and following Youtube tutorials. But I’ve come > across a problem that’s stopped me in my tracks. > When I try to do a long underscore __ for classes in Pycharm, it only > gives me two separate single underscores _ _. This is only in Pycharm, no > problems anywhere else. Could you tell me how to fix this, because I can’t > find any answers on the web and I’m not sure if I can go any further in my > learning without being able to get long underscores. >Sorry if I’m just being really dense, but like I said I’m an absolute > beginner. Thanks for your time, > Tony > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore
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 on behalf of MRAB Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:28:52 PM To: [email protected] 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 > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:49:36 +, Tony Kaloki >> 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
