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

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Fri May 25 15:17:18 CEST 2007

--- Guillaume Proux <gproux+py3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

If you look at the typical use case for programs written in python (usually also in rough order of experience) A) directly in interpreter (i love that) B) small-ish one-off scripts C) middle size scripts D) multi-module programs made by a single person E) large-ish programs made by a group of people

I have a funny dilemma as an ASCII user. When I write small-ish one-off scripts (category B), I often start typing rapid fire, and there's a feature in vim that if I hit just the wrong combination of keys, I get an accented e, even though I intend to write unaccented English. This happens to me about once a month, and I forget exactly what Python does when I try to run the program where one identifier has the accented e, and a later identifier doesn't.

I'm not drawing any specific conclusion from this anecdote about what to do in Py3k; I'm just pointing out that ascii users can get flustered by non-ascii characters, and sometimes it's purely accidental that we introduce them to our code.

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