[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Sun May 13 19:09:13 CEST 2007

On 5/13/07, Guillaume Proux <gproux+py3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

[Tomer Filiba] > when you start mixing LTR and RTL texts, it's asking for trouble: > שםמשפחה = "doe" > גיל = 5 > > shemmishpacha = "doe" > 5 = gil # looks reversed, but it's actually correct (!!) > > so that basically rules out using hebrew, arabic and farsi from being > used as identifier, and the list is not complete.

You are ruling out PEP3131 because there is no good editor able to support your language? True, for the same reason we should never have made a Unicode standard. If the editor is the problem, fix the editor.

No no no no no. This isn't a problem with the editor: it's a problem with allowing Hebrew identifiers. Tomer can correct me on this, but I strongly doubt that it improves readability by forcing the programmer to constantly change which direction they're reading from, e.g., "if שם_משפחה.strip():"

Collin Winter

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