PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Anton Vredegoor anton.vredegoor at gmail.com
Mon May 14 05:29:55 EDT 2007


In article <vJU1i.37796$M.3903 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, 
nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com says...
> Martin v. Löwis:
> 
> > This PEP suggests to support non-ASCII letters (such as accented
> > characters, Cyrillic, Greek, Kanji, etc.) in Python identifiers.
> 
>     I support this to ease integration with other languages and 
> platforms that allow non-ASCII letters to be used in identifiers. Python 
> has a strong heritage as a glue language and this has been enabled by 
> adapting to the features of various environments rather than trying to 
> assert a Pythonic view of how things should work.
> 
>     Neil
> 
Ouch! Now I seem to be disagreeing with the one who writes my editor. 
What will become of me now?

A.



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