PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[René Fleschenberg]

Stefan Behnel schrieb:
> Sounds like high time for an editor that supports the project team in their
> work, don't you think?

I think your argument about "isolated projects" is flawed. It is not at
all unusual for code that was never intended to be public, whose authors
would have sworn that it will never ever be need to read by anyone
except themselves, to surprisingly go public at some point in the future.

Moreover, wether it uses ASCII-only identifiers or not might actually be
a factor in deciding wether it can then become useful for the community
as a whole or not.

If only some few projects that are so very very isolated from the rest
of the world profit from the change this PEP proposes, then it should
IMHO be feasible to require them to use a special Python branch. That
would keep the burden of all the possible problems away from the rest of
the Python community.

-- 
René