From a82c3153ada16aeb9a3e34b9400084d1b5c3d546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kleinay <ayal.s.klein@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 15:12:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix issue #2452 - displacy arrow direction is always forward
 (#2506) (closes #2452)

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Referring #2452, fixing displacy arrow directions to match the input.

## Description
The fix is simply replacing `direction is 'left'` with `direction == 'left'` to include the case `direction` is a `str` and not a `unicode`.

### Types of change
bug fix

## Checklist
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---
 spacy/displacy/render.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/displacy/render.py b/spacy/displacy/render.py
index fa84bf87d..f5c06d06b 100644
--- a/spacy/displacy/render.py
+++ b/spacy/displacy/render.py
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ class DependencyRenderer(object):
         end (int): X-coordinate of arrow end point.
         RETURNS (unicode): Definition of the arrow head path ('d' attribute).
         """
-        if direction is 'left':
+        if direction == 'left':
             pos1, pos2, pos3 = (x, x-self.arrow_width+2, x+self.arrow_width-2)
         else:
             pos1, pos2, pos3 = (end, end+self.arrow_width-2,