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

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Sun May 27 00:53:59 CEST 2007

--- Baptiste Carvello <baptiste13 at altern.org> wrote:

However, this does not matter for teaching and for in-house code, which are the most compelling use cases of the new feature.

For the teaching use case, I'm wondering if the English keywords would already present too high a barrier for students who don't have first-semester familiarity with English.

In this example below, altered from Chapter 4 of the tutorial, I have tried to make the keywords appear foreign to an English user, so that an English-speaking person could imagine the opposite scenario.

fed ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no, please!'): elihw Eurt: ok = tupni_war(prompt) fi ok ni ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): nruter Eurt fi ok ni ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'): nruter Eslaf retries = retries - 1 fi retries < 0: esiar ROrreoi, 'refusenik user' tnirp complaint

To truly enable Python in a non-English teaching environment, I think you'd actually want to go a step further and just internationalize the whole program.

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