Unicode 7

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 03 May 2014 02:02:32 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Fri, 02 May 2014 17:58:51 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
>> I am confused about the tone however: You think this
>> 
>>>>> (fine, fine) = (1,2) # and no issue about it
>> 
>> is fine?
> 
> 
> It's no worse than any other obfuscated variable name:
> 
> MOOSE, MO0SE, M0OSE = 1, 2, 3
> xl, x1 = 1, 2
> 
> If you know your victim is reading source code in Ariel font, "rn" and
> "m" are virtually indistinguishable except at very large sizes.


Ooops! I too missed that Python normalises the name fine to fine, so in 
fact this is not a case of obfuscation. 



-- 
Steven D'Aprano
http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/