[Python-ideas] Allow using symbols from Unicode block "Superscripts and Subscripts" in identifiers

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Would you allow super/subscripts as prefixes rather than suffixes? I
> presume not since we already disallow initial numbers.


Python 3 does not recognize subscripts as numbers:

>>> int('₂')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '₂'
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