PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de
Tue May 15 08:42:39 EDT 2007


* René Fleschenberg (Tue, 15 May 2007 14:35:33 +0200)
> Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> >> It is impossible to write Python in a native language other than English
> >> even with the implementation of this PEP. All you get is a weird mixture
> >> of English identifiers from various libraries and identifiers in your
> >> native language.
> > 
> > You have a few English keywords that are not meant to be understood 
> > but can be learned.
> 
> I am talking about the stdlib, not about the very few keywords Python
> has. Are you going to re-write the standard library in your native
> language so you can have a consistent use of natural language among your
> code?

Why would I want to do that? It's not my code. Identifier names are 
mine. If I use modules from standard library I use some "foreign 
words". There's no problem in that.



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