Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > The .aliases() function would have to return a list, not a single > name, so a parameter would cause the return type to change, which > is not a good idea.
You misunderstood my proposal. .name() will still return a single name, but the type parameter will control which name to return: name(ch[, type=(None|'correction'|'control'|'alternate'|'figment'|'abbreviation')]) None - default, same as current behavior. correction - indicates that the returned name is a corrected form for the original name (which remains valid) for the same code point. control - return a new name added for a control character. alternate - return an alternate name for a character figment - return a name for a character that has been documented but was never in any actual standard. abbreviation - return a common abbreviation for a character ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18234> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
