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Fri Aug 6 21:34:01 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047200.html

On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> Mark Russell wrote:
>> I too like |.  It is not quite as visible as @, but I don't think 
>> that's
>> a serious problem, and not breaking ipython and other tools is a big
>> win.  I just tried implementing this change, and all the tests still
>> pass (not a big surprise, but worth confirming I guess).
>
> To jump on the band-wagon - I can live with | as well. I was going to
> add it to the PEP rewrite, but I'll wait for a decision, to save myself
> the writing ;)

My only objection to | is that it looks near-identical to I in many 
fonts, such as the one I use for email, so it could potentially be 
confused with some sort of magical sys._getframe() using interface 
declaration rather than compile-type syntax.

-bob

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