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On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:34 AM, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.address.1@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python?
>
>
> Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is
> case-sensitive.
>
> So keywords, identifiers, library functions and so on have to be written
> just right. (For example the identifier "abcdef" can be written 64 differ=
ent
> ways, such as "aBCdEf", and they will all be different symbols.)
>
> This is a complete pain if you're used to a language that ignores case
> (except in data). But pretty much every language now is the same, you can=
't
> do much about it, you just need to be aware of it.

Indeed. Most languages are case sensitive, because it's too risky to
do anything else. Python 3 allows you to use other scripts than the
basic Latin letters in the ASCII set:

>>> =D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=82 =3D "hello"

and of course you wouldn't expect that to collide with something
written in a completely different script. As far as the interpreter's
concerned, "P" and "p" are just as different as are "A", "=CE=91", "=D0=90"=
, and
so on.

Like with Fortran's peculiar freedom in whitespace, case insensitivity
in identifiers is an unwanted relic of a past age.

ChrisA