> In the future, before making suggestions for new features, you should do some research into what is already possible, and whether it has already been suggested before
I did some but couldn't find anything apart using unicode in strings. I didn't mention in this mail but I used to in my first try but actually sent it to python-ideas-owners by mistake.
I didn't know about the term "identifier", thanks for this.
> I doubt that. Variable names should be meanigful, not "smiley face" or "eggplant".
We could argue that having a happy smiley or sad one is more meaningful in if statements. I don't agree with this but it doesn't feel bad to me either.
For emojis, it just makes the code more colorful and a bit more friendly in some cases. And I feel like having fun and beautiful looking code is a sufficient argument by itself. But I get why you don't agree and that's why I submitted the idea :)
> For many people, support for many non-ASCII identifiers is poor. They will see a series of boxes, something like this
If we add this in Python 3.9+ imo, people are up to date and would use a proper editors. I know the community is conservative but moving the lines is possible too.
> Unicode allows us to play games like this
Thanks for the feedback