Just my opinion, I do not think this belongs in PEP8 or official guidelines.
Different editors will vary, of course, in how they handle "invisible"
characters. But since various people will read your code, I think it's
generally friendlier to use a name or Unicode escape rather than a quoted
literal.
E.g.
foobar = "foo\u200bbar" # zero-width space inside
Or if you use it often:
zw = "\u200b"
foobar = f"foo{zw}bar"
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:34 AM Artemis
What should one do when one wants to put a zero width space or other invisible character in code? These are often not displayed in editors, which can lead to confusion. I see two solutions: - include it but add a comment noting it - use the chr function to get the character (and add a comment saying what it is) Where should a guideline for this go (PEP 8?)? What should the guideline be (one of these or something else?)?
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