On 2021-11-14 17:17, Christopher Barker wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 2:03 PM
mailto:ptmcg@austin.rr.com> wrote: def ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐():
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ย ย ย try:____
๐ฅe๐ ๐๐๏ธด = "Hello"____
๐จ๐ฌr๐ตแต๏น = "World"____
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย แต๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฝ(f"{๐ต๏ฝ ๐ต๐ฉยบ_}, {๐โ๐lโ ๏ธด}!")____
ย ย ย except ๐ฃ๐ชแต๏ฝ ๐ค๐ฟแตฃ๐๐ as โ ๐c:____
๐rโนโโ("failed: {}".๐๐ผสณแตยช๏ฝ(แต๐ฑ๐ฌ))
Wow. Just Wow.
So why does Python apply ย NFKC normalization to variable names?? I can't for the life of me figure out why that would be helpful at all.
The string methods, sure, but names?
And, in fact, the normalization is not used for string comparisons or hashes as far as I can tell.
[snip] It's probably to deal with "eฬ" vs "รฉ", i.e. "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E}\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}" vs "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}", which are different ways of writing the same thing. Unfortunately, it goes too far, because it's unlikely that we want "แต" ("\N{MODIFIER LETTER SMALL P}') to be equivalent to "P" ("\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P}".