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

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Thu May 17 02:31:41 CEST 2007

On 5/13/07, Arvind Singh <arvind1.singh at gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/14/07, Anders J. Munch <2007 at jmunch.dk > wrote:

This PEP talks about support for identifiers. If you need extensive vocabulary for your identifiers, I'd assume that you're coding something non-trivial (with ignorable exceptions). Such non-trivial code should be sharable under a common language that others can understand as well, IMHO.

But that common language might well be Japanese, particularly if you are writing for a specific customer which happens to be a Japanese company.

Further, if you are doing something non-trivial, I can also assume that you'd be using third-party libraries. How would the code look if identifiers were written in various encodings?

The core of CPython prefixes its identifiers with Py_ to distinguish them from other libraries. I suspect that a Chinese character vs a Latin character would be almost as distinctive as whether or not the identifer starts with "Py_"

-jJ

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