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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:41 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To: Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
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On 2014-03-25 14:29, Mark H Harris 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.
>  >
>  > =CE=BB is a classified as Lowercase_Letter.
>  >
>  > =E2=88=9A is classified as Math_Symbol. =20
>=20
>     Thanks much!  I'll note that for improvements. Any unicode
> symbol (that is not a number) should be allowed as an identifier.

It's not just about number'ness:

  >>> letter =3D "a"
  >>> number =3D "2"
  >>> letter.isidentifier()
  True
  >>> number.isidentifier()
  False
  >>> (letter + number).isidentifier()
  True

-tkc