[Python-3000] symbols?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:16 -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:

> I don't know if the Ruby syntax for symbols, :foo, will work in  
> Python (though I think visually it's a good thing), but it would be  
> really nice to have symbols with *some* syntax in Python 3000.

To be fair, I think Ruby stole the idea and syntax from Lisp.  It's an
interesting idea, but I'd like to understand exactly what you mean by "a
Python symbol".  Can you give more detail about your idea, perhaps as a
pseudo-PEP?

-Barry

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