On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:16 AM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2019, at 19:59, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And I do the same with the operators that you disparagingly call > > "ASCII soup". I touch type them. What's the difference, other than > > that I can transfer my knowledge of typing English? > > Well, there’s also the fact that you can touch type them into Mail.app and > pine and a StackOverflow answer box and a blog comment and a general purpose > text editor and get the exact same result you get in PyCharm or PyDev. That’s > a pretty huge difference, which the OP is ignoring. >
Well - yes. However, if I were to have need of regularly typing certain tokens, I would set them up with my Compose key, which works with (nearly) every X11 app. But not everyone has a convenient way to type arbitrary characters across all apps. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XE6U3RTSYC4GY7LN3A2PKP5JWL2JZEP5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
