On 5/23/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > First: the "Common Objections" section of the PEP is too thin.  I'd
> > like the following arguments to be mentioned there for the record:
>
> >     4.  Python programs that reuse other Python modules may come
> >         to contain a mix of character sets such that no one can
> >         fully read them or properly display them.
>
> 4.a
>
> Certain cut-and-paste errors (such as cutting from a word document
> that uses "smart quotes") will change from syntax errors to silently
> creating new identifiers.

Is this actually true? Are the fancy quote characters really going to
be in the set of characters that would valid in identifiers, as
proposed?


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