[Python-Dev] Import and unicode: part two (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Jan 19 22:07:03 CET 2011


Am 19.01.2011 21:32, schrieb Terry Reedy:

On 1/19/2011 7:34 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Hi,

I patched Python 3.2 to support modules with non-ASCII paths (*). It works well on all operating systems. But the task is not completly done: (a) Python 3 doesn't support non-ASCII module names (b) Python 3 doesn't support unencodable characters in the module path I would like to know if we need to support that. Terry J. Reedy wrote (issue #10828): "I think bugs in core syntax should have high priority. I appreciate your work toward fixing it." I am a little shocked at the so-far tepid response to (a), so let me defend and explain my claim that it is a bug. In the simplest case (from 6.11. The import statement and 2.3. Identifiers and keywords) importstmt ::= "import" module module ::= indentifier identifier ::= There is nothing, nothing, about any restriction on identifiers.

+1. The restriction on valid identifiers is very sensible (obviously, since "m" needs to be accessible after "import m"), but a further restriction seems just arbitrary.

Georg



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