From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:36:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #10542: Document that identifiers use XID_Start XID_Continue*.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2rc1~281
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dbebc02edfb5489248ab42f14f90cf9435e5796;p=python

Issue #10542: Document that identifiers use XID_Start XID_Continue*.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 9fdb3507da..4b49738e26 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -292,9 +292,11 @@ Unicode Character Database as included in the :mod:`unicodedata` module.
 Identifiers are unlimited in length.  Case is significant.
 
 .. productionlist::
-   identifier: `id_start` `id_continue`*
+   identifier: `xid_start` `xid_continue`*
    id_start: <all characters in general categories Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, Lo, Nl, the underscore, and characters with the Other_ID_Start property>
    id_continue: <all characters in `id_start`, plus characters in the categories Mn, Mc, Nd, Pc and others with the Other_ID_Continue property>
+   xid_start: <all characters in `id_start` whose NFKC normalization is in "id_start xid_continue*">
+   xid_continue: <all characters in `id_continue` whose NFKC normalization is in "id_continue*">
 
 The Unicode category codes mentioned above stand for:
 
@@ -308,6 +310,8 @@ The Unicode category codes mentioned above stand for:
 * *Mc* - spacing combining marks
 * *Nd* - decimal numbers
 * *Pc* - connector punctuations
+* *Other_ID_Start* - explicit list of characters in `PropList.txt <http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt>`_ to support backwards compatibility
+* *Other_ID_Continue* - likewise
 
 All identifiers are converted into the normal form NFKC while parsing; comparison
 of identifiers is based on NFKC.