On 04/03/2022 18.11, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
On 2022-03-04 23:47:09 +0000, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
I am not sure a reply is needed, Peter, and what you say is true. But
as you point out, when using a German keyboard, I would already have
a way to enter symbols like ä, ö, ü and ß and no reason not to include
them in variable names and so on if UNICODE is being used properly. I
can use my last name in German notation as a variable in Python now:
Groß = 144
Groß / 12
12.0
Yes, I'm using umlauts occasionally in variable names in Python, and
I've also used Greek characters and others.
But in Python I CAN use them. I DON'T HAVE to.
That's a big difference.
Characters like [] or {} are a part of Python's syntax. You can't avoid
using them. If you can't type them, you can't write Python. If it is
awkward to enter them (like having to type Alt-91 or pasting them from a
character table) it is painful to write programs.
German keyboards aquired an AltGr key and the ability to type these
characters in the mid to late 1980's. Presumably because those
characters were common in C and other programming languages
... especially Pascal, which was probably bigger in Germany and Austria
in the 1980s than was C.
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