Python & unicode

[michele.simionato at gmail.com]

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

No, I really created an identifier. For instance
I can create a global name in this way:

>>> globals()["è"]=1
>>> globals()["è"]
1

> 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

The parser has this restriction, so it gets confused if it finds "è".
But the underlying
implementation just works for generic identifiers.
Michele Simionato