PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Stefan Behnel]

René Fleschenberg wrote:
> Stefan Behnel schrieb:
>> René Fleschenberg wrote:
>>> you have failed to do that, in my opinion. All you have presented are
>>> vague notions of rare and isolated use-cases.
>> I don't think software development at one of the biggest banks in Germany can
>> be considered a "rare and isolated use case".
> 
> And that software development at that bank is not done in Python because
> Python does not support non-ASCII identifiers? Can you provide a source
> for that?
> 
>> Admittedly, it's done in Java, but why should Python fail to support unicode
>> identifiers in the way Java does?
> 
> Your example does not prove much. The fact that some people use
> non-ASCII identifiers when they can does not at all prove that it would
> be a serious problem for them if they could not.

Are we trying to prove that?

And, would we have serious problems and people running from Python if Python
2.5 did not integrate the "with" statement?

Stefan