From a5c6869b2d25cbabd64e9c0f254b143d0d7d84bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Burton DeWilde <burton@chartbeat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:04:06 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug where span.orth_ != span.text (see #1612)

---
 spacy/tokens/span.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
index 9759c10a9..f09dfd134 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ cdef class Span:
 
         RETURNS (unicode): The span's text."""
         def __get__(self):
-            return ''.join([t.orth_ for t in self]).strip()
+            return self.text
 
     property lemma_:
         """RETURNS (unicode): The span's lemma."""