[Python-ideas] Allow using symbols from Unicode block "Superscripts and Subscripts" in identifiers

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Roman Inflianskas <infroma at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to use symbols from block "Superscripts and Subscripts"


-1

Python uses ** operator for what is superscript in math and [] operator for
what is subscript.  Allowing sub/superscripts in identifiers will create
confusion.  (It is not uncommon to mix typeset math with python code in
generated documentation.)

If you have many identifiers with subscripts, I would recommend using a
list or a dictionary and call them a[1], a[2], etc. instead of a<sub>1,
a<sub>2.
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