TreebankWordDetokenizer inverting order of tokens about nltk HOT 1 OPEN

Thanks @jmccrae, your solution avoids inverting the single and the double quote. It may not be a complete fix though, because it does not suppress the extraneous space between the quotes, which was the purpose of the edited substitution in L291.

However, suppressing that space is the cause of the inversion, because a double quote is represented as two single quotes, and once you have three single quotes in a row, there is no way of knowing where the double quote begins or ends. This explains why the substitution in L296 outputs the double quote first.

Another solution would be to move L291 to after L296. This suppresses the space, but the output can be hard to discern in some fonts. So, after all, it may be desirable to leave a space between both kinds of quotes for readability, and then your proposed fix seems ok.

from nltk.