PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Stefan Behnel stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de
Tue May 15 07:39:37 EDT 2007


René Fleschenberg wrote:
> Stefan Behnel schrieb:
>> Sounds like high time for an editor that supports the project team in their
>> work, don't you think?
> 
> I think your argument about "isolated projects" is flawed. It is not at
> all unusual for code that was never intended to be public, whose authors
> would have sworn that it will never ever be need to read by anyone
> except themselves, to surprisingly go public at some point in the future.

Ok, but how is "using non-ASCII identifiers" different from "using mandarin
tranliterated ASCII identifiers" in that case?

Please try to understand what the point of this PEP is.

Stefan



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