* René Fleschenberg (Tue, 15 May 2007 14:19:46 +0200) > Thorsten Kampe schrieb: > >> Identifiers which my terminal cannot even display surely > >> are not very readable. > > > > This PEP is not about you. It's about people who write in their native > > language and who are forced to use a dodgy transcription from > > characters of their own language to ASCII. > > It is impossible to write Python in a native language other than English > even with the implementation of this PEP. All you get is a weird mixture > of English identifiers from various libraries and identifiers in your > native language.
You have a few English keywords that are not meant to be understood but can be learned. > And even if you consider that more clear and readable > than English-only Python code, the fact that it discourages code sharing > remains. It neither encourages or discourages anything. And I don't think encouraring or discouraging code sharing is a good thing. There is simply no general reason to do so. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
