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[Paul McGuire]

On Apr 7, 9:54 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Ronn Ross wrote:
> > This is my first post and I'm new to Python. How would someone go about
> > adding keywords to Python? It would be great to add support for
> > Esperanto keywords in the language instead of English being the only
> > option.
>
> Unfortunately the resulting language would no longer be Python.
>
> You need to consider software portability: Python has been very
> conservative about declaring words to be "keywords" in the language,
> though clearly words like "def" and "class" must necessarily be part of
> the syntax.
>
> When you start to replace the keywords, though, your programs are no
> longer runnable on all Python installations, and simple transliteration
> fails because sometimes a keyword in one (natural) language will
> conflict with a programmer's choice of name(s) in another.
>
> So it's a superficially attractive idea with some really bad downside
> consequences.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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Zhpy is a Chinese-to-English keyword and variable converter.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zhpy/1.5.2

Perhaps this could give you some ideas.

-- Paul