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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 25 09:36:47 CEST 2007

People should not have to read long system configuration pages just to run the program that they intuitively wrote correctly right from the start. You mean that 5% of users who run into code written using non-ascii identifiers will find this sufficiently burdensome to force the 95% of ascii users to use additional verification and checking tools to make sure that they are not confronted with non-ascii identifiers? I don't find that a reasonable tradeoff for the majority of (non-unicode) users.

I think I lost track of what problem you are trying to solve: is it the security issue, or is the the problem Ping stated ("you cannot know the full lexical rules by heart anymore").

If it is the latter, I don't understand why the 95% ascii users need to run additional verification and checking tools. If they don't know the full language, they won't use it - why should they run any checking tools?

If it is the security issue, I don't see why a warning wouldn't address the concerns of these users just as well.

Regards, Martin

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