[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:44:42 -0700
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> As an example in German, I found a Python book aimed at middle- and
>> high-schoolers written in German, Python für Kids. You can look inside
>> it on the Amazon website:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Python-f%C3%BCr-Kids/dp/3826609514#reader_3826609514
>
> Oh but why isn't it named Python für Kinder? :-)

Probably to be "cool" for the "kids". Why is a mobile phone in Germany
called a "Handy" ?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)