On Jun 4, 6:12 pm, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross Ridge wrote: > > Translating keywords and standard identifiers into Chinese could make > > learning Python even more difficult. It would probably make things > > easier for new programmers, but I don't know if serious programmers would > > actually prefer programming using Chinese keywords. It would make their > > Python implementations incompatible with the standard implementation, they > > wouldn't be able to use third-party modules and their own code wouldn't > > be portable. If novice Chinese programmers would have to unlearn much > > of they've learned in order to become serious Python programmers are > > you really doing them a favour by teaching them Chinese Python? > > > It would really only work if Chinese Python became it own successful > > dialect of Python, independent of the standard Python implementation. > > Chinese Python programmers would be isolated from other Python > > programmers, each with their own set of third-party modules and little > > code sharing between the two groups. I don't think this would be good > > for Python as whole. > > Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I don't see the problem here. The bytecode wouldn't change (right?). > > Python code generally isn't shared as bytecode and it's not just keywords > we're talking about here, all standard Python identifiers (eg. "os" and > "sys") would be translated too. > > >So what? One would have to make sure that the interprter understands both > >(or to generalize: all) language versions of python and wham! > > That might work, you'd need both the standard and Chinese versions the > Python standard libraries. I doubt anyone outside of China would want > a distribution that included both, so there would still be barriers to > code sharing between the two communities. > > Interestingly, someone has already created a Chinese version of Python > much like Steve Howell suggested: > > http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/home.html > http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/english/english.html > > Apparently it hasn't been updated in almost four years, so I don't know > much use it gets. > Instead of having many different Pythons for many different languages, how about one for a language like Esperanto?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto That could be the language for the standard libraries instead of English. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
