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). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
