On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding the discussion... It seems like we're talking > about a hypothetical definition of identifiers based on Unicode character > categories, but there's no need: Python 3 has defined precisely that. From > the docs > (https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers): >
"Python 3.0 introduces **additional characters** from outside the ASCII range" - emphasis mine. Python currently has - at least, per that documentation - a hybrid system with ASCII characters defined in the classic way, and non-ASCII characters defined by their Unicode character classes. I'm talking about a system that's _purely_ defined by Unicode character classes. It may turn out that the class list exactly compasses the ASCII characters listed, though, in which case you'd be right: it's not hypothetical. In any case, Pc is included, which I should have checked beforehand. So that part is, as you say, not hypothetical. Go for it! Use 'em. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
