Kent:
I don't think so. You have hacked an attribute with latin-1
characters in it, but you
haven't actually created an identifier.
No, I really created an identifier. For instance I can create a global name in this way:
globals()["è"]=1 globals()["è"]
1
Maybe I'm splitting hairs but to me an identifier is a syntactical element that can be used in specific ways. For example the syntax defines
attributeref ::=
primary "." identifier
so if identifiers can contain latin-1 characters you should be able to say
C.è=1
Kent
According to the language reference, identifiers can only contain
letters a-z and A-Z,
digits 0-9 and underscore. http://docs.python.org/ref/identifiers.html
The parser has this restriction, so it gets confused if it finds "è". But the underlying implementation just works for generic identifiers. Michele Simionato
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