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Author weightwatchers-carlanderson
Recipients ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner, weightwatchers-carlanderson
Date 2021-03-22.12:25:07
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>Carl: can you say more about the problem that motivated this issue?

@mark.dickinson

I was parsing a large corpus of ingredients strings from web-scraped recipes. My code to interpret strings such as "1/2 cup sugar" would fall over every so often due to this issue as they used fraction slash and other visually similar characters
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2021-03-22 12:25:08weightwatchers-carlandersonsetrecipients: + weightwatchers-carlanderson, rhettinger, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, mark.dickinson, vstinner, ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka
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