"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Someone proposed using escape sequences of some kind, supported by > editor plugins, so there is no need to modify the parser.
I'm not sure whether my suggestion below is the same as or a variation on this. > > - Refactoring tools should let you rename foreign identifiers into > ASCII only. A possible modification to the PEP would be to permit identifiers to also include \uxxxx and \Uxxxxxxxx escape sequences (as some other languages already do). Then you could have a script easily (and reversibly) convert all identifiers to ascii or indeed any other encoding or subset of unicode using escapes only for the unrepresentable characters. I think this would remove several of the objections: such as being unable to tell at a glance whether someone is trying to spoof your variable names, or being unable to do minor maintenance on code using character sets which your editor doesn't support: you just run the script which would be included with every copy of Python to restrict the character set of the source files to whatever character set you feel happy with. The script should also be able to convert unrepresentable characters in strings and comments (although that last operation wouldn't be guaranteed reversible). Of course it doesn't do anything for the objection about such identifiers being ugly, but you can't have everything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
