Am 25.10.2005 um 23:40 schrieb Josiah Carlson:
> [...]
> Identically drawn glyphs are a problem, and pretending that they
> aren't
> a problem, doesn't make it so. Right now, all possible name glyphs
> are
> visually distinct, which would not be the case if any unicode
> character
> could be used as a name (except for numerals). Speaking of which,
> would
> we then be offering support for arabic/indic numeric literals, and/or
> support it in int()/float()?
It's already supported in int() and float()
>>> int(u"\u136c\u2082")
42
>>> float(u"\u0664\u09e8")
42.0
But not as literals:
# -*- coding: unicode-escape -*-
print \u136c\u2082
This gives (on the Mac):
File "encoding.py", line 3
print ፬₂
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [...]
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
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