Istvan Albert wrote: > On May 19, 3:33 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > That would be invalid syntax since the third line is an assignment >> > with target identifiers separated only by spaces. >> >> Plus, the identifier starts with a number (even though ６ is not DIGIT >> SIX, but FULLWIDTH DIGIT SIX, it's still of category Nd, and can't >> start an identifier). > > Actually both of these issues point to the real problem with this PEP. > > I knew about them (note that the colon is also missing) alas I > couldn't fix them. > My editor would could not remove a space or add a colon anymore, it > would immediately change the rest of the characters to something > crazy. > > (Of course now someone might feel compelled to state that this is an > editor problem but I digress, the reality is that features need to > adapt to reality, moreso had I used a different editor I'd be still > unable to write these characters).
The reality is that the few users who care about having chinese in their code *will* be using an editor that supports them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
