On Sat, 03 May 2014 02:02:32 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 02 May 2014 17:58:51 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> I am confused about the tone however: You think this >> >>>>> (fine, fine) = (1,2) # and no issue about it >> >> is fine? > > > It's no worse than any other obfuscated variable name: > > MOOSE, MO0SE, M0OSE = 1, 2, 3 > xl, x1 = 1, 2 > > If you know your victim is reading source code in Ariel font, "rn" and > "m" are virtually indistinguishable except at very large sizes.
Ooops! I too missed that Python normalises the name fine to fine, so in fact this is not a case of obfuscation. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
