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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun May 27 05:28:59 CEST 2007

Mike Klaas wrote:

On 25-May-07, at 6:03 AM, Steve Howell wrote:

We're just disagreeing about whether the Dutch tax law programmer has to uglify his environment with an alias of Python to "python3.0 -liberalunicode," or whether the American programmer in an enterprisy environment has to uglify his environment with an alias of Python to "python3.0 -parochial" to mollify his security auditors. Surely if such mollification were necessary, -parochial would be routinely used for (most much enterprise-y) java? I have never seen any such thing done, though my experience is perhaps not universal.

Java (and C#) are statically typed - a simple assignment statement can't introduce a new variable, so the issue of deceptive assignment provides far less opportunity for mischief.

A Java or C# equivalent of KPY's deceptive code would either fail to compile with an unrecognised identifier error when it encountered the undeclared 'allow-with-Cyrillic-a' identifier (or else it have an extra apparently redundant identifier declaration).

Cheers, Nick.

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