* replace unicode categories with raw list of code points
* simplifying ranges
* fixing variable length quotes
* removing redundant regular expression
* small cleanup of regexp notations
* quotes and alpha as ranges instead of alterations
* removed most regexp dependencies and features
* exponential backtracking - unit tests
* rewrote expression with pathological backtracking
* disabling double hyphen tests for now
* test additional variants of repeating punctuation
* remove regex and redundant backslashes from load_reddit script
* small typo fixes
* disable double punctuation test for russian
* clean up old comments
* format block code
* final cleanup
* naming consistency
* french strings as unicode for python 2 support
* french regular expression case insensitive
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## Description
- [x] Use [`black`](https://github.com/ambv/black) to auto-format all `.py` files.
- [x] Update flake8 config to exclude very large files (lemmatization tables etc.)
- [x] Update code to be compatible with flake8 rules
- [x] Fix various small bugs, inconsistencies and messy stuff in the language data
- [x] Update docs to explain new code style (`black`, `flake8`, when to use `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` and what `# noqa` means)
Once #2932 is merged, which auto-formats and tidies up the CLI, we'll be able to run `flake8 spacy` actually get meaningful results.
At the moment, the code style and linting isn't applied automatically, but I'm hoping that the new [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) will let us auto-format pull requests and post comments with relevant linting information.
### Types of change
enhancement, code style
## Checklist
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- [x] I have submitted the spaCy Contributor Agreement.
- [x] I ran the tests, and all new and existing tests passed.
- [x] My changes don't require a change to the documentation, or if they do, I've added all required information.
Matthew Honnibal