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[Steve Holden]

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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