Benefits of unicode identifiers

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/24/2017 7:12 AM, bartc wrote:
>> π = 3.141;
> 
> That's great. But how do I type it on my keyboard? How do I view someone 
> else's code on my crappy ASCII text editor?

Input is a problem, but for reading, Python comes with a half-way decent 
Unicode BMP code editor, IDLE.  No one needs to use a 'crappy ASCII text 
editor' for such code.

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Terry Jan Reedy