PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Istvan Albert]

On May 19, 3:33 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> >    That would be invalid syntax since the third line is an assignment
> > with target identifiers separated only by spaces.
>
> Plus, the identifier starts with a number (even though ６ is not DIGIT
> SIX, but FULLWIDTH DIGIT SIX, it's still of category Nd, and can't
> start an identifier).

Actually both of these issues point to the real problem with this PEP.

I knew about them (note that the colon is also missing) alas I
couldn't fix them.
My editor would could not remove a space or add a colon anymore, it
would immediately change the rest of the characters to something
crazy.

(Of course now someone might feel compelled to state that this is an
editor problem but I digress, the reality is that features need to
adapt to reality, moreso had I used a different editor I'd be still
unable to write these characters).

i.