[Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

[eryksun]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In any case I guess you won't be pleased by my discovery that, thanks to PEP
> 3131, the following is valid code in Python 3 (I've attached the code in
> case it doesn't display properly):
>
> # Parameters
> α = 1
> β = 0.1
> γ = 1.5
> δ = 0.075

Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc -- it's not the alphabet that's
the problem. Well, in a way it is because if you really used Greek
words as variable names I'd have to run your code through a
translator. It seems OK to me, however, if the intended audience is
only Greek-speaking programmers. That said, using arbitrary Unicode
characters does have the potential to introduce bugs when character
glyphs look similar or even identical:

    >>> Α, A = 5, 10
    >>> Α, A
    (5, 10)

    >>> list(map(unicodedata.name, "AΑ"))
    ['LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A', 'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA']