Python & unicode

[Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non]

Hi !

If Python is Ok with Unicode, why the next script not run ?
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def режим(toto ):
return(toto*3)

aret = режим(4)



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[John Roth]

It doesn't work because Python scripts
must be in ASCII except for the
contents of string literals. Having a function
name in anything but ASCII isn't
supported.

John Roth

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Hi !

If Python is Ok with Unicode, why the next script not run ?
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def режим(toto ):
return(toto*3)

aret = режим(4)



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Michel Claveau

[Leif K-Brooks]

John Roth wrote:

It doesn't work because Python scripts must be in ASCII except for
the contents of string literals. Having a function name in anything
but ASCII isn't supported.

To nit-pick a bit, identifiers can be in Unicode; they're simply
confined to digits and plain Latin letters.

[Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non t]

Hi !

and plain Latin letters

But not all letters (no : é à ç à ê ö ñ etc.)

Therefore, the Python's support of Unicode is... limited.

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[Radovan Garabik]

"Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite perpétuelle." <un************ @msupprimerlepo int.claveaupoin tcom> wrote:

Hi !

and plain Latin letters

But not all letters (no : é Ã* ç Ã* ê ö ñ etc.)

.... and some more letters that are not latin (j,w,u,z)
ok, I'd better shut up :-)
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[michele.simionato]

Uhm ...

class C(object): .... pass
.... setattr(C, "è", "The letter è")
getattr(C, "è")

'The letter \xe8'

;-)

Michele Simionato

[michele.simionato]

I forgot to add the following:

setattr(C, "è", u"The letter è")
getattr(C, "è") u'The letter \xe8' print getattr(C, "è") The letter è

Python identifiers can be generic strings, including Latin-1
characters;
they cannot be unicode strings, however:
setattr(C, u"è", "The letter è")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

So you are right after all, but I though most people didn't know that
you can have
valid identifiers with accented letters, spaces, and non printable
chars.
setattr(C, " ", "this works")
getattr(C, " ")

Michele Simionato

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Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite
perpétuelle. wrote:

Hi !

If Python is Ok with Unicode, why the next script not run ?

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def режим(toto ):
return(toto*3)

Because the coding is only supported in string literals.
But I'm not sure exactly why. It would be nice to do:

import math
Ï€ = math.pi

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[Kent Johnson]

mi************* **@gmail.com wrote:

I forgot to add the following:

setattr(C , "è", u"The letter è")
getattr(C , "è")
u'The letter \xe8'
print getattr(C, "è")
The letter è
But try this:

C.è

File "<stdin>", line 1
C.è
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Python identifiers can be generic strings, including Latin-1
characters;

I don't think so. You have hacked an attribute with latin-1 characters in it, but you haven't
actually created an identifier.

According to the language reference, identifiers can only contain letters a-z and A-Z, digits 0-9
and underscore.
http://docs.python.org/ref/identifiers.html

Kent

[Serge.Orlov]

Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite
perpétuelle. wrote:

Hi !

and plain Latin letters

But not all letters (no : é à ç à ê ö ñ etc.)

Therefore, the Python's support of Unicode is... limited.

So is the support of Unicode in virtually every computer language
because they don't support ... digits except 0..9. Does anyone know a
language that supports?

Serge.