[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 3:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>> I see no reason not to make a similar promise for numeric literals.  I
>> see no good reason to allow compatibility full-width Japanese "ASCII"
>> numerals or Arabic cursive numerals in "for i in range(...)" for
>> example.
> 
> I do not think that anyone, at least not me, has argued for anything
> other than 0-9 digits (or 0-f for hex) in literals in program code. The
> only issue is whether non-programmer *users* should be able to use their
> native digits in applications in response to input prompts.

Me neither. This is solely about Python being able to parse numeric
input in the float(), int() and complex() constructors.

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