[Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue May 1 17:54:24 CEST 2007

On 5/1/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/1/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > Rationale > =========

That makes absolutely no sense. You mean to tell me that people write Python without being able to understand any of the language's keywords, builtin functions, standard library or documentation?

If they have translations of the important documentation and the small number of keywords -- yes, they probably do; the alternative programming languages aren't really all that much easier for non-English speakers.

FWIW, I've used undocumented variants of Assembler, based only on examples. (So no doc, didn't have a complete set of keywords/functions/libraries, misundstood some of what I did have.) I won't say it was a great environment, but it did work.

-jJ

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