2017-11-21 12:55 GMT+01:00 Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp>:
> Personally, I think that Python probably should ban non-ASCII > non-letter characters in identifiers and whitespace, and maybe add > them later in response to requests from native speakers of the > relevant languages. That would be quite a backward-incompatible change since such identifiers have been legal since Python 3.0. > I don't know how easy that would be to do, > though, since I think the rule is already that identifiers must be > composed only of letters, numbers, and ASCII "_". See: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-313 The identifier syntax is <XID_Start> <XID_Continue>*. ID_Start is defined as all characters having one of the general categories uppercase letters (Lu), lowercase letters (Ll), titlecase letters (Lt), modifier letters (Lm), other letters (Lo), letter numbers (Nl), the underscore, and characters carrying the Other_ID_Start property. XID_Start then closes this set under normalization, by removing all characters whose NFKC normalization is not of the form ID_Start ID_Continue* anymore. ID_Continue is defined as all characters in ID_Start, plus nonspacing marks (Mn), spacing combining marks (Mc), decimal number (Nd), connector punctuations (Pc), and characters carryig the Other_ID_Continue property. Again, XID_Continue closes this set under NFKC-normalization; it also adds U+00B7 to support Catalan. Since Serhiy's > examples are valid, we'd have to rule them out explicitly, rather than > by reference to the Unicode database. Yuck. > If we take this thinking to its logical extreme we should ban ASCII 1 and l since they can be confused. Also 0 and O. Realistically, this is extremely unlikely to be an issue in practice. If you have people making such malignant code changes with checkin permission, you have bigger problems... Anyway, you can have your linter enforce ASCII or whatever character subset you deem safe. Stephan
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