Message from discussion ten small Python programs

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From: Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: ten small Python programs
Date: 26 May 2007 20:37:51 -0700
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On May 26, 9:58 pm, Paul McGuire <p...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how does this style jibe with the latest embracing
> of Unicode identifiers?  Ever tried to type an underscore on a non-US
> keyboard?  I have a heck of a time finding/typing the '_' character
> when I visit our clients in Germany, but this may just be my own
> personal Amerocentric issue (I also get messed up by the transposition
> of Y and Z on German keyboards, but my German colleagues
> understandably are not bothered by it).  For someone already familiar
> with that keyboard layout, is typing an underscore any more difficult
> than my pressing Shift-_ on my US keyboard?
>
> -- Paul

Steve, sorry for going so far off-topic.  I've started a new thread on
my questions about this aspect of PEP-8, and if there's more to say
about this, people should post it there.

-- Paul