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From: Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:29:06 -0500
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On 3/25/14 2:24 PM, MRAB wrote:
 > It's explained in PEP 3131.
 >
 > Basically, a name should to start with a letter (this has been extended
 > to include Chinese characters, etc) or an underscore.
 >
 > λ is a classified as Lowercase_Letter.
 >
 > √ is classified as Math_Symbol.

    Thanks much!  I'll note that for improvements. Any unicode symbol 
(that is not a number) should be allowed as an identifier.

   marcus