On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 10:15:37 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > JFTR: My kids (um... students) have just managed to add devanagari > > numerals to python. > > ie we can now do > > > >>>> १ + २ > > 3 > > That is actually quite awesome, and I would support a new feature that set > the numeric characters to a particular script, e.g. Latin, Arabic, > Devanagari, whatever, and printed them in that same script. It seems > unfortunate that १ + २ prints as 3 rather than ३.
BTW my boys have just mailed me their latest: >>> 九.九九 9.99 Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether that ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list