[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/01/2012 07:02 PM, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 06:43 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
>> On 10/1/12 5:07 PM, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
>>> I still don't understand why unicode characters are allowed at all in identifier
>>> names. Is the reason for this written down somewhere?
>>
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/#rationale
>>
>
> But the Python keywords and more importantly the documentation is English. Don't you need to be able
> to speak/write English in order to code Python anyway? And if you keep you code+comments English you
> can access a much larger developer pool (all developers who speak English should by my hypothesis be
> a superset of all developers who speak a certain language).

Please; the PEP has been discussed quite a lot when it was proposed,
and believe me, yours is not an unfamiliar argument :)  You're about
5 years late.

Georg