[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Jakob Bowyer]

Because it fits in your hand? And its handy? :)

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:44:42 -0700
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> As an example in German, I found a Python book aimed at middle- and
>>> high-schoolers written in German, Python für Kids. You can look inside
>>> it on the Amazon website:
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Python-f%C3%BCr-Kids/dp/3826609514#reader_3826609514
>>
>> Oh but why isn't it named Python für Kinder? :-)
>
> Probably to be "cool" for the "kids". Why is a mobile phone in Germany
> called a "Handy" ?
>
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> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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