Stefan Behnel schrieb: >>> Admittedly, it's done in Java, but why should Python fail to support unicode >>> identifiers in the way Java does? >> Your example does not prove much. The fact that some people use >> non-ASCII identifiers when they can does not at all prove that it would >> be a serious problem for them if they could not. > > Are we trying to prove that?
IMO, if you cannot prove it, the PEP should be rejected, since that would mean it introduces new problems without any proven substantial benefits. > And, would we have serious problems and people running from Python if Python > 2.5 did not integrate the "with" statement? 1) Which additional potential for bugs and which hindrances for code-sharing do you see with the with-statement? 2) The with-statement does have proven substantial benefits, IMO. -- René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list