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

Blake Winton bwinton at latte.ca
Sat May 26 15:31:42 CEST 2007

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Blake Winton wrote:

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

Let's see what we can find. I made several attempts to search for non-ASCII identifiers using google.com/codesearch and here's what I got. I think you've got a selection bias here, since google isn't likely to index code not intended for the whole world, and thus the code you'll be searching through is more likely to be in english than code in general. Indeed. I couldn't think of a better way to do a search, but if you come up with any better methods, go for it and let us know what you find.

That was what my second [snipped] paragraph was about.

If you could find tutorials or sample code in other languages, that might be less biased. Or maybe more biased in the other direction. On the other hand, I suspect you might have to work at Google to be able to run those sorts of queries.

It's a hard problem, and while I applaud your effort, I just wanted to make sure that people knew that it wasn't necessarily representative of the real world.

Later, Blake.

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