[Python-Dev] Unicode module names (Was: Python 3.3 release schedule posted)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat Apr 2 15:32:03 CEST 2011


Am 02.04.2011 15:06, schrieb anatoly techtonik:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Victor Stinner
> <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am still working on the import machinery to fix last bugs related to
>> Unicode. So it will be possible to do an useless "import café" in Python
>> 3.3, on any platform. But it is not really an huge change (for the user,
>> but an huge change in the code ;-)).
> 
> I don't like the idea of reading the code with some kind of Chinese
> variable names in them. I'd prefer that I and l confusion will be the
> only I should care about in valid Python syntax.

Sorry, that ship sailed long ago, and Unicode identifiers are allowed since
Python 3.0.  Victor's work is just to extend this to importable module names.

Georg



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