[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicitconversions).

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Oct 29 10:56:58 CEST 2005


Atsuo Ishimoto wrote:
> I'm +0.1 for non-ASCII identifiers, although module names should remain
> ASCII. ASCII identifiers might be encouraged, but as Martin said, it is
> very useful for some groups of users.

Thanks for these data. This mostly reflects my experience with German
and French users: some people would like to use non-ASCII identifiers
if they could, other argue they never would as a matter of principle.
Of course, transliteration is more straight-forward.

Regards,
Martin



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