[Python-3000] PEP 3131 - the details (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 17 17:28:14 CEST 2007

Leonardo Santagada schrieb:

Here are the rules for identifiers in javascript in case someone wants to know: http://interglacial.com/javascriptspec/a-7.html#a-7.6

In all these reports, part of the analysis is also to determine how those specifications deviate (or not) from PEP 3131.

In this case, it seems that:

JS additionally allows $
PEP 3131 additionally considers the stability extensions (Other_ID_{Start|Continue}). That may be because the JS specification was based on an earlier version of UAX#31, which perhaps didn't had the need for this stability feature.
JS uses Unicode 3.0, whereas Python uses whatever Unicode version lives in unicodedata.

Regards, Martin