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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:44:03 +1000
Subject: Re: Unicode in Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> So instead of using =CE=BB (0x3bb) we should use  =F0=9D=9D=80 (0x1d740) =
 or something thereabouts like =F0=9D=9C=86

You still have a major problem: How do you type that? It gives you
very little advantage over the word "lambda", it introduces
readability issues, it's impossible for most people to type (and
programming with a palette of arbitrary syntactic tokens isn't my idea
of fun), it's harder for a new programmer to get docs for (especially
if s/he reads the file in the wrong encoding), and all in all, it's a
pretty poor substitute for a word.

ChrisA