Re: [Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Oh but why isn't it named Python für Kinder? :-)

It looks like Germans have adopted "kid" as an abbreviation for "kinder", just like we use it as an abbreviation for "child". Or maybe we got it from them -- it's closer to their original word than ours! They seem to be using our plural, though -- "kids", not "kidden"... -- Greg