On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:36 AM, <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:
For better or worse, except for string literals which can be anything as long as you set a coding comment, python is pure ascii which simplifies everything. Lambda is not in the first 128 characters of Unicode, so it is highly unlikely to be accepted.
Incorrect as of Python 3 - it's pure Unicode :) You can have identifiers that use non-ASCII characters. The core language in the default interpreter is all ASCII in order to make it easy for most people to type, but there are variant Pythons that translate the keywords into other languages (I believe there's a Chinese Python, and possibly Korean?), which are then free to use whatever character set they like. A variant Python would be welcome to translate all the operators and keywords into single-character tokens, using Unicode symbols for NOT EQUAL TO and so on - including using U+03BB in place of 'lambda'. ChrisA