Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'syntax': 0.04; 'explicit': 0.07; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '12:50': 0.16; '2.7.2': 0.16; 'identifiers': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'url:peps': 0.16; 'url:)': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'unicode': 0.24; 'url:dev': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; '(see': 0.26; 'least': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'characters': 0.30; 'dec': 0.30; 'skip:( 20': 0.30; '"",': 0.31; '4.0': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'python2.7': 0.31; 'allows': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'compatible': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'noticed': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'version': 0.36; 'surely': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'apple': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'first': 0.61; 'more': 0.64; 'talking': 0.65; 'invalid': 0.68; 'details:': 0.80; '4.2': 0.84; '4.2.1': 0.84; 'about?': 0.84; '2013,': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: Unicode 7 Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 13:46:08 -0400 References:

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<53635b34$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <0bdd2577-2893-4564-9857-fcfc6021dced@googlegroups.com> <536387b8$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5e91529c-c03f-44ee-a610-5697fea167b2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.189.27.191 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <5e91529c-c03f-44ee-a610-5697fea167b2@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1399052782 news.xs4all.nl 2905 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70873 On 5/2/14 12:50 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Just noticed a small thing in which python does a bit better than haskell: > $ ghci > let (ﬁne, fine) = (1,2) > Prelude> (ﬁne, fine) > (1,2) > Prelude> > > In case its not apparent, the fi in the first fine is a ligature. > > Python just barfs: > >>>> >>>ﬁne = 1 > File "", line 1 > ﬁne = 1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>> >>> Surely by now we could at least be explicit about which version of Python we are talking about? $ python2.7 Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ﬁne = 1 File "", line 1 ﬁne = 1 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> ^D $ python3.4 Python 3.4.0b1 (default, Dec 16 2013, 21:05:22) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ﬁne = 1 >>> ﬁne 1 In Python 2 identifiers must be ASCII. Python 3 allows many Unicode characters in identifiers (see PEP 3131 for details: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/) -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com