Again I tried to do something in Python3. But it resulted in some strange results. See the below given code.

==== Code Begin =========

def ജഗന്‍ ():
    print("എന്റെ പേര് ജഗന്‍ എന്നാണ്")
    ജഗന്‍  = "ഞാന്‍"
    print(ജഗന്‍  )

ജഗന്‍ ()

==== Code End ===========

When I tried to execute this it throws some error.

~/pypract$ python3 tes2.py 
  File "tes2.py", line 2
    def ജഗന്‍ ():
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

~/pypract$

I thought that it may be due to the use of ‘ZWJ’ in some names I used in function names and variable names. So I decided to rewrite the same without ‘ZWJ’ character. The code is given below

==== Code Begin =====
def ജഗന്‍():
    print("എന്റെ പേര് ജഗന്‍ എന്നാണ്")
    ജഗന്‍= "ഞാന്‍"
    print(ജഗന്‍)

ജഗന്‍()
==== Code End =======

This code executed with out any error. What I did is I replaced the ന്‍ with the Unicode 5.1 equivalent . The output is

/pypract$ python3 tester.py
എന്റെ പേര് ജഗന്‍ എന്നാണ്
ഞാന്‍

I can’t understand what is happening. Is a logical mistake I made in my program!!! Or is it a problem related to ZWJ and Python????

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