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On 05/02/2014 10:50 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Python just barfs: > >>>> fine = 1 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > fine = 1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>> > > The point of that example is to show that unicode gives all kind of > "Aaah! Gotcha!!" opportunities that just dont exist in the old world. > Python may have got this one right but there are surely dozens of others. Except that it doesn't. This has nothing to do with unicode handling. It has everything to do with what defines an identifier in Python. This is no different than someone wondering why they can't start an identifier in Python 1.x with a number or punctuation mark.
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Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-29 10:37 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-29 12:59 -0500
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 21:53 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-01 05:00 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 11:04 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-01 18:38 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:29 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:39 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 13:01 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 20:16 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 01:05 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 03:15 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 00:33 +0100
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:02 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 12:39 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:59 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:45 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:08 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-05-02 13:04 +0300
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 03:39 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:55 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 15:19 +0300
Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-03 07:07 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-02 17:13 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:03 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:50 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 11:39 -0600
Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 13:46 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-02 20:07 +0200
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 17:58 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 21:18 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 18:42 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:54 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:02 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:15 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:02 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:04 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 12:17 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 22:19 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-03 12:57 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-02 07:58 -0500
Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 17:52 +0100
Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 00:16 -0400
Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 21:42 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 14:54 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:08 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:01 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:52 +0000
Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 19:16 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 13:05 +0300
Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:24 +1000
Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 18:07 +0100
Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-04-29 19:12 +0100
Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 00:06 -0700
Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-30 13:48 -0500
Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 23:00 -0700
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