[Python-ideas] allow `lambda' to be spelled λ

[Pavol Lisy]

On 7/20/16, Danilo J. S. Bellini <danilo.bellini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 4. Unicode have more than one codepoint for some symbols that look alike,
> for example "Σ𝚺𝛴𝜮𝝨𝞢" are all valid uppercase sigmas. There's also "∑",
> but this one is invalid in Python 3. The italic/bold/serif distinction
> seems enough for a distinction, and when editing a code with an Unicode
> char like that, most people would probably copy and paste the symbol
> instead of typing it, leading to a consistent use of the same symbol.

I am not sure what do you like to say, so for sure some info:

PEP-3131 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/): "All identifiers
are converted into the normal form NFKC while parsing; comparison of
identifiers is based on NFKC."

>From this point of view all sigmas are same:

  set(unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', i) for i in "Σ𝚺𝛴𝜮𝝨𝞢")  == {'Σ'}