PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[laurentszyster at gmail.com]

On May 13, 5:44 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> PEP 1 specifies that PEP authors need to collect feedback from the
> community. As the author of PEP 3131, I'd like to encourage comments
> to the PEP included below, either here (comp.lang.python), or to
> python-3... at python.org
>
> In summary, this PEP proposes to allow non-ASCII letters as
> identifiers in Python. If the PEP is accepted, the following
> identifiers would also become valid as class, function, or
> variable names: Löffelstiel, changé, ошибка, or 売り場
> (hoping that the latter one means "counter").

+1

If only for one simple reason: JSON objects have UNICODE names and it
may be convenient from a Python web agent to be able to instanciate/
serialize any such object as-is ... to/from a Python class instead of
a dictionnary.

Regards,


Laurent Szyster