Serhiy Storchaka writes: > All control characters except CR, LF, TAB and FF are banned outside > comments and string literals. I think it is worth to ban them in > comments and string literals too.
+1 > > For homoglyphs/confusables, should there be a SyntaxWarning when an > > identifier looks like ASCII but isn't? > > It would virtually ban Cyrillic. +1 (for the comment and for the implied -1 on SyntaxWarning, let's keep the Cyrillic repertoire in Python!) > It is a work for linters, +1 Aside from the reasons Serhiy presents, I'd rather not tie this kind of rather ambiguous improvement in Unicode handling to the release cycle. It might be worth having a pep9999 module/script in Python (perhaps more likely, PyPI but maintained by whoever does the work to make these improvements + Petr or somebody Petr trusts to do it), that lints scripts specifically for confusables and other issues. Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z62GMKAJLHZJD3YSEOJKKBWUZSBYEIVA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/