[Python-ideas] Allow additional separator character in variables
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 21:32:21 EST 2017
On 19 November 2017 at 12:01, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python allows underscore character as a separator in variables.
> This is better than nothing, still it does not make the look much better.
>
> **Proposal**: allow additional separator, namely hyphen character.
Regardless of any potential readability merits, backwards
compatibility requirements combined with the use of the hyphen
character as a binary operator prohibit such a change:
>>> my = variable = 1
>>> my-variable
0
Cheers,
Nick.
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