[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Nov 30 23:43:22 CET 2010


On 11/30/2010 3:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

I see no reason not to make a similar promise for numeric literals. I see no good reason to allow compatibility full-width Japanese "ASCII" numerals or Arabic cursive numerals in "for i in range(...)" for example.

I do not think that anyone, at least not me, has argued for anything other than 0-9 digits (or 0-f for hex) in literals in program code. The only issue is whether non-programmer users should be able to use their native digits in applications in response to input prompts.

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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