PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Jakub Stolarski jakub.stolarski at gmail.com
Mon May 14 12:47:11 EDT 2007


On May 13, 5:44 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? why?
No. It's good convention to stick with english. And if we stick with
english, why we should need non-ASCII characters? Any non-ASCII
character makes code less readable. We never know if our code became
public.

> - would you use them if it was possible to do so? in what cases?
No. I don't see any uses. I'm Polish. Polish-english mix looks funny.




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