[Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Sat May 5 06:22:57 CEST 2007


On May 4, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Baptiste Carvello wrote:

If this is to ever happen, it should be only accessible through a command-line option to python. That way we make sure people are aware that they are making their code incompatible with the larger world.

That's ridiculous. Without your special option, the code would run
perfectly well on pythons world-wide. Requiring a special option is a
surefire way to ensure compatibility issues, of course...

James



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