On 2014-03-31 11:40, Ian Kelly wrote: > There is nothing useful > you can do with a name that is the U+1F4A9 character that you can't > do just as easily with alphanumeric identifiers like pile_of_poo (or > куча_фекалий if one prefers; that's auto-translated, so don't blame > me if it's a poor translation). The kinds of symbols that we're > talking about here aren't part of any writing systems, and so to > incorporate them in *names* as if they were is an abuse of Unicode.
It does get more complex though, when you could have things like 黄金屎 = "\U0001f4a9" Like you, I don't expect to ever encounter something like this in the wild, but they are indeed symbols used in a writing system. :-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
