[New-bugs-announce] [issue16010] Some Unicode in identifiers improperly rejected

[Joshua Landau]

New submission from Joshua Landau:

"a¹ = None" is not valid, even though unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", "¹") == "1".

One would expect "a¹ = None" and "a1 = None" to be equivalent in this case, as with "aⁱ = None" and "ai = None".

I am not sure how many other characters exhibit the same problem.

References:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-September/631420.html

"¹" === "\u00b9"
"ⁱ" === "\u2071"

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 171082
nosy: Joshua.Landau
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Some Unicode in identifiers improperly rejected
versions: Python 3.2

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