[issue30128] xid_start definition for Unicode identifiers refers to xid_continue

2017-04-29 Thread Xiang Zhang
Xiang Zhang added the comment: Quoting from PEP3131: 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. -- nosy: +loewis, xiang.zhang ___ Python t

[issue30128] xid_start definition for Unicode identifiers refers to xid_continue

2017-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
New submission from Ralph Corderoy: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers has a grammar. identifier ::= xid_start xid_continue* id_start ::= id_continue ::= xid_start::= xid_continue ::= I struggle to make sense of it unle