Python & unicode

[michele.simionato at gmail.com]

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 ?
UnicodeEncodeError: '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, " ")


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