On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2014-03-31 11:40, Ian Kelly wrote: >> There is nothing useful >> you can do with a name that is the U+1F4A9 character that you can't >> do just as easily with alphanumeric identifiers like pile_of_poo (or >> куча_фекалий if one prefers; that's auto-translated, so don't blame >> me if it's a poor translation). The kinds of symbols that we're >> talking about here aren't part of any writing systems, and so to >> incorporate them in *names* as if they were is an abuse of Unicode. > > It does get more complex though, when you could have things like > > 黄金屎 = "\U0001f4a9" > > Like you, I don't expect to ever encounter something like this in the > wild, but they are indeed symbols used in a writing system. :-)
That's already a legal identifier, though. The constituent ideographs are categorized as "Letter, Other", not symbols. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
