Le mercredi 11 décembre 2013 11:45:43 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > When you tell a story, it's important to engage the reader from the > > > start. > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:39 PM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A few practical considerations, far away from theoretical > > > aspects. Mainly for non ascii, understand non native English > > > speakers. > > > > And then, shortly after the beginning of the story, you need to > > introduce the villain. Thanks, jmf, for taking that position in our > > role-play storytelling scenario! A round of applause for jmf, folks, > > for doing a brilliant impression of the uninformed-yet-fanatical > > Knight Templar villain! >
I know Python since ver. 1.5.6 and used it intensively since ver. 2.0 or 2.1 (?). I acquired some user experience. Windows, Py2.(7), ascii. It is not a secret Python uses ascii for the representation. As an example, this guy who some time ago exposed his own solution to solve that problem (btw, elegant and correct). --- you wrote blah, blah about his "mysterious code point", you did not recognize he is (was) using Turkish Windows with the code page cp1254 ---. It is a little bit fascinating, 20 years after the creation a language, people are still fighting to write text in a human way. Unicode. For a first language, it may be not a bad idea to use a language which uses "unicode à la unicode". Windows, Py3, unicode. It is is infortunate, but it is a fact Python has some problems with that platform (file sytem encoding), -> potential problems which should not exist for a beginner. I am the first to recognize the win console is all but friendly. If one wishes to use a unicode code page, Python fails [*]. Python has plenty of good qualities, you (and others) are discussing plenty of theoretical aspects. I'm pointing the fact, one may be stuck simply because one cannot display a piece of of text! I'm not so sure, such a behaviour is expected from a beginner learning a computer language. [*] I toyed with go(lang) and ruby 2 (only in a unicode perspective), I should say I had no problems. Why? No idea, it is too far beyond my knowlege. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
