New submission from Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I hope I chose the correct component type for this issue report. Anyway, if you do import this in the Python 3.x interactive interpreter, you get the Zen of Python by Tim Peters. This text has a line which has an ortographical typo in it. Please look at this line of text from the Zen of Python:
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Now this line has the typo I am talking about, and the typo is the lack of a space before the first dash (actually before the double-hyphen) and the space after the second dash (or double-hyphen). Please note that the dash punctuation mark is by ortographical rules separated from the words, so there are two spaces separating a dash from the surrounding words. By writing the dashes in the way that are in the above sentence from the Zen of Python, we don't achieve any effect as sometimes ortographical rules can be broken to create some special effect in the sentence (like in a line that uses the asteriskes to emphasize the word 'right' with writing it as *right*), but here in the above line it is clearly a normal sentence, not needing any special effect, which is also incorrect from this point of view. So please fix the above line like this: There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it. Consider the fact that the last sentence is written correctly and that the dash in it is separated from the surrounding words as the ortographic rules demand. So having one line of text with an incorrectly used dash and some other line with the correctly used dash, makes the whole text either inconsistent or just bad. Okay, it isn't *really* bad but it's incorrect and it needs a little fix. And it's not too much trouble to add two missing spaces in that line of text. I think that ortography is our friend in the Python world. ;) ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 69688 nosy: cheDu, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3364> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
