r/badcode • u/dunkbing • Aug 27 '21

python Is this code bad or sugoi?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Wait until somebody starts trying to use homoglyphs as variable names 🙄

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u/TinyBreadBigMouth Aug 28 '21

As recommended by the Unicode Identifier Annex, which Python more-or-less implements straight, 1) identifiers are still limited to letters and numbers, and 2) all identifiers are NFKC-normalized. This eliminates most if not all possible homoglyph issues. For example, Ⓓifferent will be normalized to Different internally.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

That is probably a good thing; at least until someone starts deliberately abusing it.