[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Robert Kern]

On 10/1/12 5:07 PM, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> I still don't understand why unicode characters are allowed at all in identifier
> names. Is the reason for this written down somewhere?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/#rationale

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Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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