Add regression test for #736

spacy/tests/regression/test_issue736.py

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+# coding: utf-8
+"""Test that times like "7am" are tokenized correctly and that numbers are converted to string."""
+
+
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('text,number', [("7am", "7"), ("11p.m.", "11")])
+def test_issue736(en_tokenizer, text, number):
+    tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
+    assert len(tokens) == 2
+    assert tokens[0].text == number
+    assert tokens[0].lemma_ == number
+    assert tokens[0].pos_ == 'NUM'