@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ least slightly uneasy when reading (or being required to write) another style.
 Many coding styles place begin/end brackets on a line by themselves.  This makes
 programs considerably longer and wastes valuable screen space, making it harder
 to get a good overview of a program.  Ideally, a function should fit on one
-screen (say, 20-30 lines).  20 lines of Python can do a lot more work than 20
+screen (say, 20--30 lines).  20 lines of Python can do a lot more work than 20
 lines of C.  This is not solely due to the lack of begin/end brackets -- the
 lack of declarations and the high-level data types are also responsible -- but
 the indentation-based syntax certainly helps.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ which is exactly::
 
     1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875 (decimal)
 
-The typical precision of 53 bits provides Python floats with 15-16
+The typical precision of 53 bits provides Python floats with 15--16
 decimal digits of accuracy.
 
 For a fuller explanation, please see the :ref:`floating point arithmetic
 
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ outdated.
 
     Guido van Rossum and Jelke de Boer, "Interactively Testing Remote Servers
     Using the Python Programming Language", CWI Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 4
-    (December 1991), Amsterdam, pp 283-303.
+    (December 1991), Amsterdam, pp 283--303.
 
 
 Are there any books on Python?
 
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ Error Codes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Because the default handlers handle redirects (codes in the 300 range), and
-codes in the 100-299 range indicate success, you will usually only see error
-codes in the 400-599 range.
+codes in the 100--299 range indicate success, you will usually only see error
+codes in the 400--599 range.
 
 :attr:`http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses` is a useful dictionary of
 response codes in that shows all the response codes used by RFC 2616. The
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ it's the base calendar for all computations.
 
    .. method:: itermonthdates(year, month)
 
-      Return an iterator for the month *month* (1-12) in the year *year*. This
+      Return an iterator for the month *month* (1--12) in the year *year*. This
       iterator will return all days (as :class:`datetime.date` objects) for the
       month and all days before the start of the month or after the end of the
       month that are required to get a complete week.
 
@@ -275,6 +275,6 @@ cuts for numerical purposes, a good reference should be the following:
 
    Kahan, W:  Branch cuts for complex elementary functions; or, Much ado about
    nothing's sign bit.  In Iserles, A., and Powell, M. (eds.), The state of the art
-   in numerical analysis. Clarendon Press (1987) pp165-211.
+   in numerical analysis. Clarendon Press (1987) pp165--211.
 
 
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ Encodings and Unicode
 ---------------------
 
 Strings are stored internally as sequences of code points in
-range ``0x0``-``0x10FFFF``.  (See :pep:`393` for
+range ``0x0``--``0x10FFFF``.  (See :pep:`393` for
 more details about the implementation.)
 Once a string object is used outside of CPU and memory, endianness
 and how these arrays are stored as bytes become an issue.  As with other
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ There are a variety of different text serialisation codecs, which are
 collectivity referred to as :term:`text encodings <text encoding>`.
 
 The simplest text encoding (called ``'latin-1'`` or ``'iso-8859-1'``) maps
-the code points 0-255 to the bytes ``0x0``-``0xff``, which means that a string
+the code points 0--255 to the bytes ``0x0``--``0xff``, which means that a string
 object that contains code points above ``U+00FF`` can't be encoded with this
 codec. Doing so will raise a :exc:`UnicodeEncodeError` that looks
 like the following (although the details of the error message may differ):
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ position 3: ordinal not in range(256)``.
 
 There's another group of encodings (the so called charmap encodings) that choose
 a different subset of all Unicode code points and how these code points are
-mapped to the bytes ``0x0``-``0xff``. To see how this is done simply open
+mapped to the bytes ``0x0``--``0xff``. To see how this is done simply open
 e.g. :file:`encodings/cp1252.py` (which is an encoding that is used primarily on
 Windows). There's a string constant with 256 characters that shows you which
 character is mapped to which byte value.
 
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ it returns a string.
 
    Return a string representation of the ASCII character *c*.  If *c* is printable,
    this string is the character itself.  If the character is a control character
-   (0x00-0x1f) the string consists of a caret (``'^'``) followed by the
+   (0x00--0x1f) the string consists of a caret (``'^'``) followed by the
    corresponding uppercase letter. If the character is an ASCII delete (0x7f) the
    string is ``'^?'``.  If the character has its meta bit (0x80) set, the meta bit
    is stripped, the preceding rules applied, and ``'!'`` prepended to the result.
 
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ The module :mod:`curses` defines the following functions:
    Return the name of the key numbered *k*.  The name of a key generating printable
    ASCII character is the key's character.  The name of a control-key combination
    is a two-character string consisting of a caret followed by the corresponding
-   printable ASCII character.  The name of an alt-key combination (128-255) is a
+   printable ASCII character.  The name of an alt-key combination (128--255) is a
    string consisting of the prefix 'M-' followed by the name of the corresponding
    ASCII character.
 
 
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    preceded by ``+`` or ``-`` (with no space in between) and surrounded by
    whitespace.  A base-n literal consists of the digits 0 to n-1, with ``a``
    to ``z`` (or ``A`` to ``Z``) having
-   values 10 to 35.  The default *base* is 10. The allowed values are 0 and 2-36.
+   values 10 to 35.  The default *base* is 10. The allowed values are 0 and 2--36.
    Base-2, -8, and -16 literals can be optionally prefixed with ``0b``/``0B``,
    ``0o``/``0O``, or ``0x``/``0X``, as with integer literals in code.  Base 0
    means to interpret exactly as a code literal, so that the actual base is 2,
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ write code that handles both IP versions correctly.
    The following constitutes a valid IPv4 address:
 
    1. A string in decimal-dot notation, consisting of four decimal integers in
-      the inclusive range 0-255, separated by dots (e.g. ``192.168.0.1``). Each
+      the inclusive range 0--255, separated by dots (e.g. ``192.168.0.1``). Each
       integer represents an octet (byte) in the address. Leading zeroes are
       tolerated only for values less than 8 (as there is no ambiguity
       between the decimal and octal interpretations of such strings).