PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Thorsten Kampe  <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
>* René Fleschenberg (Tue, 15 May 2007 14:35:33 +0200)
>> I am talking about the stdlib, not about the very few keywords Python
>> has. Are you going to re-write the standard library in your native
>> language so you can have a consistent use of natural language among your
>> code?

> Why would I want to do that? It's not my code. Identifier names are 
> mine. If I use modules from standard library I use some "foreign 
> words". There's no problem in that.

It could even be an advantage. I sometimes find that I have to use a
'second best' name myself because I want to avoid the possible
confusion caused if I choose a name which has a well-known existing
use.

-M-