PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Wed May 16 09:42:40 EDT 2007


In <464AC4C2.7030007 at web.de>, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> René Fleschenberg wrote:
>> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb:
>>> There are potential users of Python who don't know much english or no
>>> english at all.  This includes kids, old people, people from countries
>>> that have "letters" that are not that easy to transliterate like european
>>> languages, people who just want to learn Python for fun or to customize
>>> their applications like office suites or GIS software with a Python
>>> scripting option.
>> 
>> Make it an interpreter option that can be turned on for those cases.
> 
> No. Make "ASCII-only" an interpreter option that can be turned on for the
> cases where it is really required.

Make no interpreter options and use `pylint` and `pychecker` for checking
if the sources follow your style guide in respect to identifiers.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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