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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2003-05-07 01:20:58 (GMT)
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2003-05-07 01:20:58 (GMT)
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SF #596434: tweak wordsep_re so the definition of an em-dash is
stricter: specifically, "--" must be preceded by a limited set of characters, not by any non-whitespace character.
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diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class TextWrapper:
# (after stripping out empty strings).
wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|' # any whitespace
r'-*\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|' # hyphenated words
- r'(?<=\S)-{2,}(?=\w))') # em-dash
+ r'(?<=[\w\!\"\'\&\.\,\?])-{2,}(?=\w))') # em-dash
# XXX will there be a locale-or-charset-aware version of
# string.lowercase in 2.3?