<lvh> I’d split, if only because it does French spacing correctly.

<raz> oh, split is magic in that way?

<Wild_Cat> “French spacing”?

<Wild_Cat> what is French spacing?

<lvh> If you know your input won’t do that, fine :)

<ProgVal> a word is something which match with that :
#[^a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]+[^a-zA-Z0-9]#

<lvh> Wild_Cat: It’s what the English call something stupid to mock the
French.

<lvh> Wild_Cat: Two spaces after a period. [09:51]
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<Wild_Cat> but nobody uses that!
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<Wild_Cat> (I’d have expected “French spacing” to mean something like putting
a space between words and ? or !)

<lvh> Wild_Cat: loads of software has broken because of things that “nobody
does”, because nobody does that, until somebody does [09:52]

<raz> well, he has a point. whitespace counting only makes sense after
squeezing whitespace, e.g. with a regex
* evanton wonders what’s the problem to google for “python word count”

<ProgVal> <lvh> Wild_Cat: Two spaces after a period. => Why do you call that
French spacing ?

<Wild_Cat> lvh: no, I mean, nobody does that in France. Why the heck is that
called French spacing?

<ProgVal> I’m french, but never write two spaces…

<lvh> ew no, let’s not use things that solve NP-complete problems
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<lvh> ProgVal, Wild_Cat: <lvh> Wild_Cat: It’s what the English call something
stupid to mock the French. [09:53]

<Wild_Cat> (I suspect it’s like French fries: it’s actually Belgian spacing
but it’d sound silly :p)

<evanton> space length contest

<evanton> enlarge your space!

<lvh> You have been successfully trolled by long-dead English typographers.