PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[René Fleschenberg]

Stefan Behnel schrieb:
>>> Admittedly, it's done in Java, but why should Python fail to support unicode
>>> identifiers in the way Java does?
>> Your example does not prove much. The fact that some people use
>> non-ASCII identifiers when they can does not at all prove that it would
>> be a serious problem for them if they could not.
> 
> Are we trying to prove that?

IMO, if you cannot prove it, the PEP should be rejected, since that
would mean it introduces new problems without any proven substantial
benefits.

> And, would we have serious problems and people running from Python if Python
> 2.5 did not integrate the "with" statement?

1) Which additional potential for bugs and which hindrances for
code-sharing do you see with the with-statement?

2) The with-statement does have proven substantial benefits, IMO.

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René