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

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Thu May 24 03:56:56 CEST 2007

--- Ka-Ping Yee <python at zesty.ca> wrote:

In summary, my preference ordering of the possibilities would be:

[...] 2. "python" allows only ASCII identifiers. "python -U" allows Unicode identifiers that are in NFC and use a conservative, fixed subset of the available characters. Support for "-U" is a compile-time option, preferably not compiled into official binary releases of Python. 3. "python" and "python -U" are as above. "python -UU" allows all Unicode identifier characters (which may grow over time as the Unicode standard changes). Support for "-UU" is a compile-time option, never on in official binary releases of Python, and discouraged with "here be dragons" warnings, etc.

I'm in favor of that, with the idea that by 3.1 or 3.later (depending on feeback from international community), Python would eventually deprecate those options, and it would eventually be the burden of non-Unicoders (which includes me) to specify --asciionly if they were worried about running non-ASCII Python.

I disagree with option 1 (not quoted), but not passionately.

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