Language change and code breaks (fwd)

[Bengt Richter]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:18:15 -0400, Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
[...]
>Likewise, in Python you rarely see syntactical but silly choices like:
>
>    >>> xlsoALwl390sslkslWW = 37
>    >>> xlsoALwL390sslkslWW = 38
>    >>> print xlsoALwL390sslkslWW,xlsoALwl390sslkslWW
>    38 37
>
That does bring up the subject of machine-generated symbols though.
And case sensitivity in dictionaries. I use base52 [A-Za-z] encoded
md5's in certain contexts. If I use those as keys, will it break?