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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 13:58:01 CET 2010

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:23, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Sure you can.  In Python program text, all keywords will be ASCII

Yes, yes, sure, but not the contents of variables,

I see no reason not to make a similar promise for numeric literals.

Wait what, literas? The example was

float('١٢٣٤.٥٦')

Which doesn't have any numeric literals in them at all. Do that work? Nope, it's a syntax error. Too badm that would have been cool, but whatever.

Why would this be a problem:

T1234 = float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') T1234 1234.56

But this OK?

T١٢٣٤ = float('1234.56') T١٢٣٤ 1234.56

I don't see that.

Should we bother to implement ١٢٣٤.٥٦ as a literal equivalent to 1234.56? Well, not unless somebody askes for it, or it turns out to be easy. :-) But that's another question.

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