Alex Martelli wrote: > Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> to remember and type some arcane alt-keycode formula to be able to do >> basic scripting would be obnoxious, to say the least. Most keyboards >> worldwide provide decent support for the ASCII character set (though >> some add a few extra national characters). Perhaps things will change > > Italian-layout support for braces is the pits (alt-keycodes ahoy): one > way I managed to get a local friend interested in Python was to point > out that he'd neved NEED to type braces (calling `dict' is just as good > a way to make dictionaries, as braces-laden `dict display' forms;-).
That's equally true for the German keyboard layout, though I believe that most programmers switch to standard English layout anyway. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
