Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>Hey, if the Japanese and Chinese can manage it, English speakers can
>surely find a way to enter àor â without a keyboard the size of a
>battleship.
Japanese and Chinese programmers don't use (and don't seem to want to)
use non-ASCII characters outside of strin
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:52:32 +0200, Henrik Faber wrote:
> If you allow for UTF-8 identifiers you'll have to be horribly careful
> what to include and what to exclude. Is the non-breaking space a valid
> character for a identifier? Technically it's a different character than
> the normal space, so
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:24:21 +0200, Henrik Faber wrote:
> I disagree. Firstly, Python could already support the different types of
> strings even with the ASCII character set. For example, the choice could
> have made to treat the apostophe string 'foo' differently from the
> double quote string "
In Mark Lawrence
writes:
> Sorry not with you is there something special about April 1st next year?
In the United States, April 1st (also known as April Fool's Day) is an
occasion for practical jokes, faked 'news' stories, and general silliness.
I don't know if it is observed outside the U.S.
On 23/07/2012 15:43, Henrik Faber wrote:
On 23.07.2012 16:43, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Apparently, not all characters are fine with Python. Why can I not have
domino tiles are identifier characters?
ð» = 9
File "", line 1
ð» = 9
^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
On 23.07.2012 16:43, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Apparently, not all characters are fine with Python. Why can I not have
>> domino tiles are identifier characters?
>>
> ð» = 9
>>File "", line 1
>> ð» = 9
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier
>>
>> I think there ne
On 23/07/2012 14:59, Henrik Faber wrote:
On 23.07.2012 15:55, Henrik Faber wrote:
Dear Lord.
Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Dec 8 2011, 15:26:58)
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
fööbär = 3
fööbär
3
I didn't know this. How awful.
Henrik Faber writes:
> On 23.07.2012 15:55, Henrik Faber wrote:
>
>> Dear Lord.
>>
>> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Dec 8 2011, 15:26:58)
>> [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> fööbär = 3
> fööbär
>> 3
>>
>> I didn't know thi
On 23.07.2012 15:55, Henrik Faber wrote:
> Dear Lord.
>
> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Dec 8 2011, 15:26:58)
> [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
fööbär = 3
fööbär
> 3
>
> I didn't know this. How awful.
Apparently, not all c
On 23.07.2012 15:52, Henrik Faber wrote:
> but I would hate for
> Python to include them into identifiers. Then again, I'm pretty sure
> this is not planned anytime soon.
Dear Lord.
Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Dec 8 2011, 15:26:58)
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "licens
On 23.07.2012 15:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That said, though, there's good argument in allowing full Unicode in
> *identifiers*. If I'm allowed to name something "foo", then a German
> should be allowed to name something "foö". And since identifiers are
> case sensitive (at least, they are in a
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Henrik Faber wrote:
> And if I think of PHP's latest fiasco that happened with unicode
> characters, it makes me shudder to think you'd want that stuff in
> Python. If I remember correctly, it was the Turkish locale that they
> stuggled with: Turkey apparently doe
On 23.07.2012 14:55, Roy Smith wrote:
> Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage
> of the full unicode character set.
Plus, if I may add this: It's *your* newsreader that broke the correctly
declared ISO-8859-7 encoded subject of the OP. What a bitter irony that
de
On 23.07.2012 14:55, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <500d0632$0$1504$c3e8da3$76491...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> Technically, no, it's a SyntaxError, because the Original Poster has used
>> some sort of "Smart Quotes" characters rââ¬â¢Ã¢â¬Ë instead of good old fashion
On 2012/07/23 02:55 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage
of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII
and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes
for multi-line
strings). Not to
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