Thorsten Kampe schrieb: > * René Fleschenberg (Tue, 15 May 2007 14:04:07 +0200) >> Thorsten Kampe schrieb: >>> Because keywords are not meant meant to extended or manipulated or >>> something similar by the programmers. Keywords are well known and only >>> a limited set of words. That's why you can't use keywords as >>> identifiers. >> This is true for keywords, but not for the stdlib. Are you suggesting >> that the stdlib should be "internationalized"? > > No, because it's the /Standard/ Library to be used by everyone. And > the lowest common denominator is ASCII and English.
This makes the argument that this PEP would allow people to write "Chinese only" Python code invalid (unless they do not use the stdlib). -- René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
