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[Alain Ketterlin]

Henrik Faber <hfaber at invalid.net> writes:

> On 23.07.2012 15:55, Henrik Faber wrote:
>
>> Dear Lord.
>> 
>> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Dec  8 2011, 15:26:58)
>> [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> fööbär = 3
>>>>> fööbär
>> 3
>> 
>> I didn't know this. How awful.
>
> Apparently, not all characters are fine with Python. Why can I not have
> domino tiles are identifier characters?

The answer is in the language reference:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers

-- Alain.