Better display of single-character Words

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pyparsing/core.py b/pyparsing/core.py
index 008fb01..d865283 100644
--- a/pyparsing/core.py
+++ b/pyparsing/core.py
@@ -2282,7 +2282,10 @@ class Word(Token):
         # add length specification
         if self.minLen > 1 or self.maxLen != _MAX_INT:
             if self.minLen == self.maxLen:
-                return base + "{{{}}}".format(self.minLen)
+                if self.minLen == 1:
+                    return base[2:]
+                else:
+                    return base + "{{{}}}".format(self.minLen)
             elif self.maxLen == _MAX_INT:
                 return base + "{{{},...}}".format(self.minLen)
             else:
diff --git a/tests/test_unit.py b/tests/test_unit.py
index 19258dd..42a6c73 100644
--- a/tests/test_unit.py
+++ b/tests/test_unit.py
@@ -7953,6 +7953,10 @@ class Test2_WithoutPackrat(ppt.TestParseResultsAsserts, TestCase):
         print(expr)
         self.assertEqual("W:(0-9){2,3}", repr(expr))
 
+        expr = pp.Char(pp.nums)
+        print(expr)
+        self.assertEqual("(0-9)", repr(expr))
+
 
 class Test3_EnablePackratParsing(TestCase):
     def runTest(self):