PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Thu May 17 08:29:49 EDT 2007



> > Now look me in the eye and tell me that you find
> > the mix of proper German and English keywords
> > beautiful.
> 
> I can't admit that, but I find that using German
> class and method names is beautiful. The rest around
> it (keywords and names from the standard library)
> are not English - they are Python.
> 
> (look me in the eye and tell me that "def" is
> an English word, or that "getattr" is one)
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

LOL - true - but a broken down assembler programmer like me
does not use getattr - and def is short for define, and for and while
and in are not German.

Looks like you have stirred up a hornets nest...

- Hendrik





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