[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 17 05:53:26 CEST 2007

Jim Jewett wrote:

You can use any character in a symbol (~= identifier), including (if your implementation supports such characters at all, even in comments) Hebrew or Chinese characters.

Lisp is a bit different, because it's always had only a very few chars that aren't identifier chars, so you're used to seeing identifiers with all sorts of junk in them. But in Python, you tend to see anything that you don't recognise as a letter or digit as "punctuation" and therefore non-identifier.

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