James Gerity <snoop.j...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Why was it decided to not raise a syntax error...
I'm not sure if such a decision was even ever made, the error happens before normalization is applied. I.e. the parser is doing two things here: (1) validating the syntax against the grammar and (2) building the AST. Normalization happens after (1), and `𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 = 0` is valid syntax because the grammar is NOT defined in terms of normalized identifiers, it's describing the valid (but confusing!) assignment that Carl described. I agree that this doesn't seem like bug, but it IS my new favorite quirk of identifier normalization. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46555> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
