Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment:

2012/1/18 Jim Jewett <rep...@bugs.python.org>:
>
> Jim Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> My preference would be for non_NFKC.isidentifier() to return False

It *is* an identifier, though. Python will happily accept it.

>
> It *may* be worth adding an asidentifier() method that returns either False 
> or the canonicalized string that should be used instead.
>
> At a minimum, the documentation (including docstring) should warn that the 
> method doesn't check for NFKC form, and that if the input is not ASCII, the 
> caller should first ensure this by calling str1=unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", 
> str1)

Sounds fine to me.

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