[Python-Dev] Dash

[Nick Coghlan]

On 19 July 2013 17:25, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at 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).

Cheers,
Nick.

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