On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Michael Selik <michael.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > If they'd only used Unicode, they could have said "þou" in prayer and > "ðousand" for the year. > > BTW, I finally know why there are all those "Ye Olde ...". > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Yep! And the letters (thorn and eth) survive in a very few languages (Icelandic, notably). Fortunately, Python 3 lets you use it in identifiers. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
