He said, "'Quoted' words in a larger quote."
double_quote_sets_re = re.compile(r""""'(?=\w)""") single_quote_sets_re = re.compile(r"""'"(?=\w)""") # Special case for decade abbreviations (the '80s): decade_abbr_re = re.compile(r"""\b'(?=\d{2}s)""") # Get most opening double quotes: opening_double_quotes_regex = re.compile(r""" ( \s | # a whitespace char, or | # a non-breaking space entity, or -- | # dashes, or &[mn]dash; | # named dash entities %s | # or decimal entities &\#x201[34]; # or hex ) " # the quote (?=\w) # followed by a word character """ % (dec_dashes,), re.VERBOSE) # Double closing quotes: closing_double_quotes_regex = re.compile(r""" #(%s)? # character that indicates the quote should be closing " (?=\s) """ % (close_class,), re.VERBOSE) closing_double_quotes_regex_2 = re.compile(r""" (%s) # character that indicates the quote should be closing " """ % (close_class,), re.VERBOSE) # Get most opening single quotes: opening_single_quotes_regex = re.compile(r""" ( \s | # a whitespace char, or | # a non-breaking space entity, or -- | # dashes, or &[mn]dash; | # named dash entities %s | # or decimal entities &\#x201[34]; # or hex ) ' # the quote (?=\w) # followed by a word character """ % (dec_dashes,), re.VERBOSE) closing_single_quotes_regex = re.compile(r""" (%s) ' (?!\s | s\b | \d) """ % (close_class,), re.VERBOSE) closing_single_quotes_regex_2 = re.compile(r""" (%s) ' (\s | s\b) """ % (close_class,), re.VERBOSE) def educateQuotes(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with "educated" curly quote HTML entities. Example input: "Isn't this fun?" Example output: “Isn’t this fun?” """ # Special case if the very first character is a quote # followed by punctuation at a non-word-break. Close the quotes by brute force: s = single_quote_start_re.sub("’", s) s = double_quote_start_re.sub("”", s) # Special case for double sets of quotes, e.g.: #He said, "'Quoted' words in a larger quote."
s = double_quote_sets_re.sub("“‘", s) s = single_quote_sets_re.sub("‘“", s) # Special case for decade abbreviations (the '80s): s = decade_abbr_re.sub("’", s) s = opening_single_quotes_regex.sub(r"\1‘", s) s = closing_single_quotes_regex.sub(r"\1’", s) s = closing_single_quotes_regex_2.sub(r"\1’\2", s) # Any remaining single quotes should be opening ones: s = s.replace("'", "‘") s = opening_double_quotes_regex.sub(r"\1“", s) s = closing_double_quotes_regex.sub(r"”", s) s = closing_double_quotes_regex_2.sub(r"\1”", s) # Any remaining quotes should be opening ones. return s.replace('"', "“") def educateQuotesLatex(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with double quotes corrected to LaTeX quotes. Example input: "Isn't this fun?" Example output: ``Isn't this fun?''; """ # Special case if the very first character is a quote # followed by punctuation at a non-word-break. Close the quotes by brute force: s = single_quote_start_re.sub("\x04", s) s = double_quote_start_re.sub("\x02", s) # Special case for double sets of quotes, e.g.: #He said, "'Quoted' words in a larger quote."
s = double_quote_sets_re.sub("\x01\x03", s) s = single_quote_sets_re.sub("\x03\x01", s) # Special case for decade abbreviations (the '80s): s = decade_abbr_re.sub("\x04", s) s = opening_single_quotes_regex.sub("\\1\x03", s) s = closing_single_quotes_regex.sub("\\1\x04", s) s = closing_single_quotes_regex_2.sub("\\1\x04\\2", s) # Any remaining single quotes should be opening ones: s = s.replace("'", "\x03") s = opening_double_quotes_regex.sub("\\1\x01", s) s = closing_double_quotes_regex.sub("\x02", s) s = closing_double_quotes_regex_2.sub("\\1\x02", s) # Any remaining quotes should be opening ones. s = s.replace('"', "\x01") # Finally, replace all helpers with quotes. return s.replace("\x01", "``").replace("\x02", "''").\ replace("\x03", "`").replace("\x04", "'") def educateBackticks(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with ``backticks'' -style double quotes translated into HTML curly quote entities. Example input: ``Isn't this fun?'' Example output: “Isn't this fun?” """ return s.replace("``", "“").replace("''", "”") def educateSingleBackticks(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with `backticks' -style single quotes translated into HTML curly quote entities. Example input: `Isn't this fun?' Example output: ‘Isn’t this fun?’ """ return s.replace('`', "‘").replace("'", "’") def educateDashesOldSchool(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with each instance of "--" translated to an en-dash HTML entity, and each "---" translated to an em-dash HTML entity. """ return s.replace('---', "—").replace('--', "–") def educateDashesOldSchoolInverted(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with each instance of "--" translated to an em-dash HTML entity, and each "---" translated to an en-dash HTML entity. Two reasons why: First, unlike the en- and em-dash syntax supported by EducateDashesOldSchool(), it's compatible with existing entries written before SmartyPants 1.1, back when "--" was only used for em-dashes. Second, em-dashes are more common than en-dashes, and so it sort of makes sense that the shortcut should be shorter to type. (Thanks to Aaron Swartz for the idea.) """ return s.replace('---', "–").replace('--', "—") def educateEllipses(s): """ Parameter: String. Returns: The string, with each instance of "..." translated to an ellipsis HTML entity. Example input: Huh...? Example output: Huh…? """ return s.replace('...', "…").replace('. . .', "…") __author__ = "Chad Miller