On Thursday, May 21, 2020 1:14 PM MRAB [mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com] wrote > On 2020-05-21 16:48, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > 21.05.20 16:45, Alex Hall пише: > >> ≥ instead of >= might be an improvement because that's a > >> symbol learned in school, but ultimately the student still needs to > >> learn what `>=` means as it will be used most of the time. > > > > But in my school I learned ⩾, not ≥. It was used in USSR and I believe > > in other European countries (maybe it is French or Germany tradition?). > > > ⩾ is also what I learned here in the UK. ≥ _is_ clearer on-screen, though. > > > If Python will become accepting ≥ as an alias of >=, I insist that it > > should accept also ⩾. And ⊃, because it is the symbol used for superset > > relations for sets (currently written as >= in Python). And maybe other > > national or domain specific mathematical symbols. Imagine confusion when > > >=, ≥, ⩾ and ⊃ are occurred in the same program. > > Hey, we don't have to stop there. There are lots of Unicode characters Python could accept to make it "easier". How about › and ‹ and ⁄ and ‒ and – and ͢ and ﴾ and ﴿ and ۔. (No, these are not ASCII characters)
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