PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Jakub Stolarski jakub.stolarski at gmail.com
Mon May 14 16:31:16 EDT 2007


On May 14, 9:49 pm, Méta-MCI <enleverlesX.X... at XmclaveauX.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? why?
> - would you use them if it was possible to do so? in what cases?
>
> Yes.
>
> JScript  can use letters with accents in identifiers
> XML (1.1)  can use letters with accents in tags
> C# can use letters with accents in variables
> SQL: MySQL/MS-Sql/Oralcle/etc. can use accents in fields or request
> etc.
> etc.
>
> Python MUST make up for its lost time.
>
> MCI

And generally nobody use it.
It sounds like "are for art's sake".

But OK. Maybe it'll be some impulse to learn some new languages.

+1 for this PEP




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