commit 9c6e6a0c7fbc2a15bbd3092e8a75bec80da58b3d
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Wed Sep 28 08:09:05 2011 -0400
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Wed Sep 28 08:09:05 2011 -0400
tree 8006ca48906b1d320341439b0f87c913b8755ca9
parent d83f226d93cc24be3d6db953c8e8bd3d751c81a9

don't check that the first character is XID_Continue

Current, XID_Continue is a superset of XID_Start, but that may sometime change.

Objects/unicodeobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 2ae1947..aff205d 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -10196,7 +10196,7 @@
     if (!_PyUnicode_IsXidStart(first) && first != 0x5F /* LOW LINE */)
         return 0;
 
-    for (i = 0; i < PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self); i++)
+    for (i = 1; i < PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self); i++)
         if (!_PyUnicode_IsXidContinue(PyUnicode_READ(kind, data, i)))
             return 0;
     return 1;