On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:31:09 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > the better solution is to permit the full Unicode alphabet in > identifiers...
I'm not entirely sure about that. Full Unicode support in identifiers such as URLs doesn't create a brand new vulnerability, but it does increase it from a fairly minor problem to something *much* harder to deal with. It's bad enough when somebody manages to fool you into going to (say) app1e.com instead of apple.com, without also being at risk from аррlе, аpрlе, арplе and аррle (to mention just a few). At least nobody can fake .com with .соm. To put it another way: py> аррlе = 23 py> apple = 42 py> assert аррlе == apple Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AssertionError -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
