[beginner] What's wrong?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> Yep! And the letters (thorn and eth) survive in a very few languages
> (Icelandic, notably). Fortunately, Python 3 lets you use it in
> identifiers.

While it is fine for Python to support Unicode to its fullest, I don't
think it's a good idea for a programmer to use non-English identifiers.

The (few) keywords are in English anyway. Imagine reading code like
this:

    for oppilas in luokka:
        if oppilas.hylätty():
            oppilas.ilmoita(oppilas.koetulokset)

which looks nauseating whether you are an English-speaker or
Finnish-speaker.


Marko