perf: speed up standardize_quotes with str.translate()

[KRRT7]

Summary

• Replace per-character regex with a precomputed str.maketrans() + str.translate() table for standardize_quotes
• Covers all 36 Unicode fancy-quote codepoints (double + single) from the original regex
• Adds a benchmark (test_unstructured/benchmarks/) to track standardize_quotes performance

Benchmark

Azure Standard_D8s_v5 — 8 vCPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8473C, 32 GiB RAM, Python 3.12.12

test_benchmark_standardize_quotes

	Min	Median	Mean	OPS	Rounds
6ada488f6c28 (base)	139.4μs	175.3μs	177.2μs	5.64 Kops/s	6,137
8929336e66aa (head)	86.6μs	119.7μs	119.5μs	8.37 Kops/s	11,900
Speedup	1.61x	1.46x	1.48x	1.48x

Function	base	head	Delta	Speedup
standardize_quotes	112.0μs	50.0μs	██████░░░░ -55%	2.24x

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Generated by codeflash agent

Reproduce the benchmark locally

# Full comparison with codeflash compare:
uv run codeflash compare 6ada488f6c28 8929336e66aa \
  --inject test_unstructured/benchmarks/test_benchmark_standardize_quotes.py \
  --inject test_unstructured/benchmarks/__init__.py \
  --inject pyproject.toml

# Or manually with pytest-benchmark:
git checkout 6ada488f6c28
uv run pytest test_unstructured/benchmarks/test_benchmark_standardize_quotes.py --benchmark-save=baseline

git checkout 8929336e66aa
uv run pytest test_unstructured/benchmarks/test_benchmark_standardize_quotes.py --benchmark-compare=0001_baseline

Benchmark test source

from unstructured.metrics.text_extraction import standardize_quotes

SAMPLE_TEXTS = [
    "She said “Hello” and then whispered ‘Goodbye’ before leaving.",
    "„To be, or not to be, that is the question” - Shakespeare’s famous quote.",
    "«When he said “life is beautiful,” I believed him» wrote Maria.",
    "❝Do you remember when we first met?❞ she asked with a smile.",
    "〝The meeting starts at 10:00, don’t be late!〟 announced the manager.",
    'He told me 「"This is important" yesterday」, she explained.',
    "『The sun was setting. The birds were singing. It was peaceful.』",
    "﹂Meeting #123 @ 15:00 - Don’t forget!﹁",
    "「Hello」, ❝World❞, \"Test\", 'Example', „Quote”, «Final»",
    "It’s John’s book, isn’t it?",
    '‹Testing the system’s capability for "quoted" text›',
    "❛First sentence. Second sentence. Third sentence.❜",
    "「Chapter 1」: ❝The Beginning❞ - „A new story” begins «today».",
]


def run_standardize_quotes():
    for text in SAMPLE_TEXTS:
        standardize_quotes(text)


def test_benchmark_standardize_quotes(benchmark):
    benchmark(run_standardize_quotes)

Changelog

Added entry in CHANGELOG.md under 0.22.13.

Test plan

• Benchmarked with codeflash compare on Azure VM (Standard_D8s_v5)
• Existing unit tests pass — standardize_quotes is a drop-in replacement
• All 36 quote codepoints covered by the translation table

[KRRT7]

The changelog claims this fixes "a pre-existing bug where left smart quotes were never normalized due to duplicate dictionary keys," but there are no regression assertions that prove the fix works for the specific characters that were allegedly broken.

Add explicit regression assertions for U+201C (") and U+2018 (') — the claimed bug-fix characters — and for mixed strings containing both left/right smart quotes (e.g. "\u201cHello\u201d" → "\"Hello\"", "\u2018it\u2019s" → "'it's").

The new benchmark input in test_benchmark_standardize_quotes.py includes those characters, but it only measures runtime; it does not assert correctness. The existing test_standardize_quotes parametrized cases still do not directly cover those exact code points — I checked and neither \u201c nor \u2018 appear anywhere in the test file.

Without these assertions, the bug-fix claim is untested and could silently regress.

[KRRT7]

Added regression tests in 8dffad1 — 58/58 pass.

Coverage report — standardize_quotes
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▸ Translation table (module-level)

  ✓  52 │ _TRANSLATION_TABLE = str.maketrans(
     53 │     dict.fromkeys(_DOUBLE_QUOTE_CODEPOINTS, '"') | dict.fromkeys(_SINGLE_QUOTE_CODEPOINTS, "'")
     54 │ )

▸ Function

  ✓ 214 │ def standardize_quotes(text: str) -> str:
    215 │     """
    216 │     Converts all unicode quotes to standard ASCII quotes with comprehensive coverage.
    217 │
    218 │     Args:
    219 │         text (str): The input text to be standardized.
    220 │
    221 │     Returns:
    222 │         str: The text with standardized quotes.
    223 │     """
  ✓ 224 │     return text.translate(_TRANSLATION_TABLE)

▸ Codepoint test coverage
  (which of the 39 quote codepoints are exercised by test inputs)

  Double quotes → "
  ✓  U+0022       '"'  QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201C       '"'  LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201D       '"'  RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201E       '„'  DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201F       '‟'  DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+00AB       '«'  LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+00BB       '»'  RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+275D       '❝'  HEAVY DOUBLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+275E       '❞'  HEAVY DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+2E42       '⹂'  DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+1F676       '🙶'  SANS-SERIF HEAVY DOUBLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+1F677       '🙷'  SANS-SERIF HEAVY DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+1F678       '🙸'  SANS-SERIF HEAVY LOW DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+2826       '⠦'  BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-236
  ✓  U+2834       '⠴'  BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-356
  ✓  U+301D       '〝'  REVERSED DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+301E       '〞'  DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+301F       '〟'  LOW DOUBLE PRIME QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+FF02       '＂'  FULLWIDTH QUOTATION MARK

  Single quotes → '
  ✓  U+0027       "'"  APOSTROPHE
  ✓  U+2018       '''  LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+2019       '''  RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201A       '‚'  SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+201B       '‛'  SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+2039       '‹'  SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+203A       '›'  SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
  ✓  U+275B       '❛'  HEAVY SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+275C       '❜'  HEAVY SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT
  ✓  U+300C       '「'  LEFT CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+300D       '」'  RIGHT CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+300E       '『'  LEFT WHITE CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+300F       '』'  RIGHT WHITE CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FE41       '﹁'  PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FE42       '﹂'  PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FE43       '﹃'  PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT WHITE CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FE44       '﹄'  PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FF07       '＇'  FULLWIDTH APOSTROPHE
  ✓  U+FF62       '｢'  HALFWIDTH LEFT CORNER BRACKET
  ✓  U+FF63       '｣'  HALFWIDTH RIGHT CORNER BRACKET

  ██████████████████████████████  🟢 39/39 codepoints (100%)

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✓ 58/58 tests pass (19 string-level + 39 per-codepoint)
✓ U+201C and U+2018 now explicitly asserted