[Python-ideas] allow `lambda' to be spelled λ

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Jul 13 21:57:37 EDT 2016


On 07/13/2016 06:28 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 4:12 PM, John Wong wrote:

>> Sorry to be blunt. Are we going to add omega, delta, psilon and the entire Greek alphabet?
>
> Breaking news: the entire Greek alphabet is already available for use in Python.

Indeed.  We can all use any letters in unicode for our identifiers.

Does Python currently use any one-letter keywords?  So why start now?

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~Ethan~



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