On 3/2/11 2:37 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, D. S. McNeil<dsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
For what reason is var(s) not raising an error if not s.isalnum()?
People might want to use utf-8 strings which won't be valid under that
condition.
Even "x_1" fails an alnum check.
It would make sense to exclude some punctuation though, parentheses,
brackets, spaces, arithmetic operators, periods... Surely there's some
sense of alpha-numeric for unicode, plus underscores.
How about just following the Python convention for identifiers, minus
the keywords:
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
Jason
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