[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131

Boris Borcic bborcic at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 18:27:11 CEST 2007


Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> 
> Hang on a second.  No one is *imposing* new restrictions.  Python
> uses ASCII-only identifiers today and has always been that way.

That restriction clearly wasn't imposed on the standard www.python.org windows 
distributions of Python - for quite a few versions already. See below.

Cheers, Boris Borcic


Python 2.4.2 (#67, Jan 17 2006, 15:36:03) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

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     makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback
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IDLE 1.1.2
 >>> ça_marchait = 1
 >>> print ça_marchait
1

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Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

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     Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE
     makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback
     interface.  This connection is not visible on any external
     interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet.
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IDLE 1.2
 >>> ça_marche = 2
 >>> à_l_évidence = 3
 >>> ça_marche + à_l_évidence
5



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