On Oct 3, 2:29 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Devin wrote: > > On Oct 3, 1:57 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > >>> Devin wrote: > >>>> So Python can have unicode variable names but you can't > >>>> "explode" (**myvariable) a dict with unicode keys? WTF? > >>> That works fine for me. > >> The OP probably means > > >>>>> def f(a=1): return a > >> ... > >>>>> f(**{"a": 42}) > >> 42 > >>>>> f(**{u"a": 42}) > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > >> TypeError: f() keywords must be strings > > >> Peter > > > Yes, that's exactly what I mean. > > Hmm. Why did you say that Python can have unicode variable > names? In the version you are using, it can't. In Python > 3.0, it can, but then, you can also use Unicode strings > as keys in **arguments, in Python 3.0. > > Regards, > Martin
Oh. I read somewhere that UTF-8 variable names we're supported. I thought I even saw a colleague using Kanji. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list