Allowing non-ASCII identifiers
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 13 04:02:06 EST 2004
Brian Quinlan wrote:
> I think that Python should borrow the C# identifier syntax verbatim. That
> way we can have code that looks like this:
>
> class @class:
> def @def(@def):
> pass
>
> cl\u0061ss.d\u0065f(true)
If I ever get to write a PEP on this, I'll happily copy the second
syntax. I'm not sure I like the first one, and there are plenty
conventions to get around the restriction (e.g. in Tkinter, you add
an underscore if a Tcl property is a Python keyword).
Regards,
Martin
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