New submission from Jim Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com>:
Python identifiers are in NFKC form; string method .isidentifier() returns true
on strings that are not in that form. In some contexts, these non-canonical
strings will be replaced with their NFKC equivalent, but in other contexts
(such as the builtins hasattr, getattr, delattr) they will not.
>>> cha=chr(170)
>>> cha
'ª'
>>> cha.isidentifier()
True
>>> uc.normalize("NFKC", cha)
'a'
>>> obj.ª = 5
>>> hasattr(obj, "ª")
False
>>> obj.a
5
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components: Unicode
messages: 151597
nosy: Jim.Jewett, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: misleading return from isidentifier
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Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue13821>
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