Benefits of unicode identifiers (was: Allow additional separator in identifiers)
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Fri Nov 24 17:46:55 EST 2017
On 11/24/17 5:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> Have you tried using U+2010 (HYPHEN) ‐. It is in the class
> XID_CONTINUE (in fact it is in XID_START) so should be available.
U+2010 isn't allowed in Python 3 identifiers.
The rules for identifiers are here:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
. U+2010 is in category Pd
(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2010), which isn't one of
the categories allowed in identifiers. Category Pc
(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Pc/list.htm) is
allowed, but it doesn't include anything that would look like a hyphen.
--Ned.
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