On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On 4 Mrz., 09:30, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
> wrote:
>> So one would have to do
>>
>> alpha=var("α", validate_name=False)
>>
>> to avoid an error?
>
> Yes, that was the idea.
>
>> Also, I'd still like to avoid
>>
>> var("[]", ...)
>>
>> working at all. We could accept all valid Python3 identifiers, and
>> print a warning if we were unable to insert them into the global
>> namespace, e.g. they're not valid Python2 identifiers. (The warning
>> could be suppressed if one did, say, var("α", inject=False).)
>
> How to test whether something is a valid identifier in Python3? I
> don't know.
Fortunately, Python is open source :) I can't imagine it would be that
hard to figure out.
> And what shall we do with reserved keywords like "def"? Should
> var("def") always result in an error (probably not), or should it just
> not be injected into the global name space? Hence, a warning is
> printed unless it is var('def',inject=False)?
Yep, that'd what I was thinking.
- Robert
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