On 2014-03-25 14:29, Mark H Harris wrote: > > It's explained in PEP 3131. > > > > Basically, a name should to start with a letter (this has been > > extended to include Chinese characters, etc) or an underscore. > > > > λ is a classified as Lowercase_Letter. > > > > √ is classified as Math_Symbol. > > Thanks much! I'll note that for improvements. Any unicode > symbol (that is not a number) should be allowed as an identifier.
It's not just about number'ness: >>> letter = "a" >>> number = "2" >>> letter.isidentifier() True >>> number.isidentifier() False >>> (letter + number).isidentifier() True -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
