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

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri May 25 03:37:47 CEST 2007

On 5/24/07, Guillaume Proux <gproux+py3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

It is my understanding that the only remaining objection for unicode in identifier is for claimed security issues.

It isn't strictly security; when I've been burned by cut-and-paste that turned out to be an unexpected character, it didn't cause damage, but it did take me a long time to debug.

Regarding the the notion you should be able to give a single accepted charset, the problem arises that restricting charsets on a global scope (from a global command line flag or a site.py file) will prevent me for example to freely mix English, French, Greek and Japanese in the same large project

For most people, the appearance of a Greek or Japanese (let alone both) character would be more likely to indicate a typo. If you know that your project is using both languages, then just allow both; the point is that you have made an explicit decision to do so.

-jJ

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