Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers?

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On 12/4/13 6:57 PM, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 12:09:52 AM UTC+1, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Perhaps you should look
>> at different ways of spelling your identifiers?  Why can't you use an
>> underscore instead of a hyphen?
>
> So that underscore could be left for use inside fields' names?
> However I think we could use some unique Unicode character for this instead hyphen as long as Python allows any alphanumeric Unicode character inside identifiers which I think it does...
>
> Regards,
> Piotr
>

You object to typing [''] but you don't mind typing an unusual Unicode 
character?

--Ned.

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