Change double hyphens (en dashes) to em (longer) dashes

diff --git a/Doc/howto/cporting.rst b/Doc/howto/cporting.rst
index 27e7e6f6e0d9a037bfd3cf213892ad22cb4cfb7e..7cacb0aecd8b49aca8f548fbc6dd0e9a5f27ba73 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/howto/cporting.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/cporting.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ long/int Unification
 --------------------
 
 Python 3 has only one integer type, :func:`int`.  But it actually
-corresponds to Python 2's :func:`long` type--the :func:`int` type
+corresponds to Python 2's :func:`long` type—the :func:`int` type
 used in Python 2 was removed.  In the C-API, ``PyInt_*`` functions
 are replaced by their ``PyLong_*`` equivalents.
 

diff --git a/Doc/howto/curses.rst b/Doc/howto/curses.rst
index 74f0da5bcd553f9a3cde5cf739be3c5e87c0a24d..47585f6f37dc8317cadc9895b4a0ce5468215306 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/howto/curses.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/curses.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ before X is available.
 The curses library hides all the details of different terminals, and provides
 the programmer with an abstraction of a display, containing multiple
 non-overlapping windows.  The contents of a window can be changed in various
-ways-- adding text, erasing it, changing its appearance--and the curses library
+ways---adding text, erasing it, changing its appearance---and the curses library
 will automagically figure out what control codes need to be sent to the terminal
 to produce the right output.
 

diff --git a/Doc/library/hmac.rst b/Doc/library/hmac.rst
index eef8856e0c4d4813673fe221ee425eabd31a98de..d4877930b14c970f4ca7d6b9460554e030e3028d 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/hmac.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/hmac.rst
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ This module also provides the following helper function:
 
       If *a* and *b* are of different lengths, or if an error occurs,
       a timing attack could theoretically reveal information about the
-      types and lengths of *a* and *b*--but not their values.
+      types and lengths of *a* and *b*—but not their values.
 
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.7.7

diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 633a6aff1cd2a45304ae0186f36442fabf23bbaa..8c488bed6aa3a001750500f61ac41629d0979ffb 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Module Interface
    the list of supported encodings.
 
    *errors* is an optional string that specifies how encoding and decoding
-   errors are to be handled--this cannot be used in binary mode.  Pass
+   errors are to be handled—this cannot be used in binary mode.  Pass
    ``'strict'`` to raise a :exc:`ValueError` exception if there is an encoding
    error (the default of ``None`` has the same effect), or pass ``'ignore'`` to
    ignore errors.  (Note that ignoring encoding errors can lead to data loss.)

diff --git a/Doc/library/pdb.rst b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
index da307df709745885bdeb18a72e66b450e4b1c8b6..9177f95d517cf9a8bd48feaaedc12acb8e86a51f 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/pdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pdb.rst
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ commands [*bpnumber*]
    return, jump, quit and their abbreviations) terminates the command list (as if
    that command was immediately followed by end). This is because any time you
    resume execution (even with a simple next or step), you may encounter another
-   breakpoint--which could have its own command list, leading to ambiguities about
+   breakpoint—which could have its own command list, leading to ambiguities about
    which list to execute.
 
    If you use the 'silent' command in the command list, the usual message about

diff --git a/Doc/library/whichdb.rst b/Doc/library/whichdb.rst
index 3bcb57ccfc10b40b3dc316e62dfd2274663d9c0f..844cc1a16c9e9ed778dfe443f271910ddb4f11b3 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/whichdb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/whichdb.rst
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 
 
 The single function in this module attempts to guess which of the several simple
-database modules available--\ :mod:`dbm`, :mod:`gdbm`, or :mod:`dbhash`\
---should be used to open a given file.
+database modules available—:mod:`dbm`, :mod:`gdbm`, or :mod:`dbhash`\
+—should be used to open a given file.
 
 
 .. function:: whichdb(filename)