As a non-native English speaker, On May 13, 11:44 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? why? No. I don't think it adds much, I think it will be a little used feature (as it should be), every python instructor will start their class by saying here is a feature that you should stay away from because you never know where your code ends up. > - would you use them if it was possible to do so? in what cases? No. The only possible uses I can think of are intentionally obfuscating code. Here is something that just happened and relates to this subject: I had to help a student run some python code on her laptop, she had Windows XP that hid the extensions. I wanted to set it up such that the extension is shown. I don't have XP in front of me but when I do it takes me 15 seconds to do it. Now her Windows was set up with some asian fonts (Chinese, Korean not sure), looked extremely unfamiliar and I had no idea what the menu systems were. We have spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to accomplish the task. I had her read me back the options, but something like "hide extensions" comes out quite a bit different. Surprisingly tedious and frustrating experience. Anyway, something to keep in mind. In the end features like this may end up hurting those it was meant to help. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
