PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com
Thu May 17 07:30:08 EDT 2007


"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> 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)

He's got a point (a small one though). For example:

- self (can be changed though)
- is 
- with
- isinstance
- try

Regards,


Björn

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