New submission from Diego Argueta <[email protected]>:
The way Python 3 handles identifiers containing mathematical characters appears
to be broken. I didn't test the entire range of U+1D400 through U+1D59F but I
spot-checked them and the bug manifests itself there:
Python 3.9.7 (default, Sep 10 2021, 14:59:43)
[GCC 11.2.0] on linux
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>>> foo = 1234567890
>>> bar = 1234567890
>>> foo is bar
False
>>> 𝖇𝖆𝖗 = 1234567890
>>> foo is 𝖇𝖆𝖗
False
>>> bar is 𝖇𝖆𝖗
True
>>> 𝖇𝖆𝖗 = 0
>>> bar
0
This differs from the behavior with other non-ASCII characters. For example,
ASCII 'a' and Cyrillic 'a' are properly treated as different identifiers:
>>> а = 987654321 # Cyrillic lowercase 'a', U+0430
>>> a = 123456789 # ASCII 'a'
>>> а # Cyrillic
987654321
>>> a # ASCII
123456789
While a bit of a pathological case, it is a nasty surprise. It's possible this
is a symptom of a larger bug in the way identifiers are resolved.
This is similar but not identical to https://bugs.python.org/issue46555
Note: I did not find this myself; I give credit to Cooper Stimson
(https://github.com/6C1) for finding this bug. I merely reported it.
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components: Parser, Unicode
messages: 412084
nosy: da, ezio.melotti, lys.nikolaou, pablogsal, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unicode identifiers not necessarily unique
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9
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