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Author belopolsky
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Date 2010-12-30.02:50:39
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> Given that until recently (r87433) the PEP and the reference manual
> disagreed on the definition,

Actually, it looks like PEP 3131 and the Language Reference [1] still
disagree.  The latter says:

identifier  ::=  id_start id_continue*

which should probably be

identifier  ::=  xid_start xid_continue*

instead.
[1] http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
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