[beginner] What's wrong?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 10:55:25 EDT 2016


On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Michael Selik <michael.selik at gmail.com> wrote:
> If they'd only used Unicode, they could have said "þou" in prayer and
> "ðousand" for the year.
>
> BTW, I finally know why there are all those "Ye Olde ...".
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

Yep! And the letters (thorn and eth) survive in a very few languages
(Icelandic, notably). Fortunately, Python 3 lets you use it in
identifiers.

ChrisA



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