[docs] [issue35105] Document that CPython accepts "invalid" identifiers
Terry J. Reedy
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Fri Nov 2 16:22:01 EDT 2018
Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:
It is an implementation detail that some people need to know, and that is very unlikely to change. In the pydev thread, Guido said
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My feeling is that limiting it to strings is fine, but checking those
strings for resembling identifiers is pointless and wasteful."
We occasionally document such things in a 'CPython implementation detail' note. I don't know the proper markup for these. At present, I think the note should be in setattr and **kwargs docs.
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