On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > “If you can type an N-ARY PRODUCT, you can type a GREEK SMALL LETTER > PI, unless there’s something very weird going on.” > > …like, the user is in the past and is using ISO 8859-7 (instead of a > 21st-century encoding, like UTF-8). An encoding which has support for > Π¹ and π², but not for ∏³… (of course, this assumes that, if we add > those new characters into python, we allow any encoding, somehow.) > > That’s not too weird, other than the ancient encoding being used.
Since we opened by discussing Unicode, anyone who's cheating and using an eight-bit character set is, well, cheating. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list