[Python-3000] Unicode identifiers (Was: sets in P3K?)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Apr 28 22:24:23 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I want good Unicode support for string literals and comments.
> Everything else in the language ought to be ASCII.

Does that include restricting identifiers to ASCII as well?

I was hoping to propose a PEP on non-ASCII identifiers some
day; that would (of course) include a requirement that the
standard library would always be restricted to ASCII-only
identifiers as a style-guide.

Regards,
Martin


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