PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Eric Brunel (Tue, 15 May 2007 10:52:21 +0200)
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:38:38 +0200, Duncan Booth  
> <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > Recently there has been quite a bit of publicity about the One Laptop Per
> > Child project. The XO laptop is just beginning rollout to children and
> > provides two main programming environments: Squeak and Python. It is an
> > exciting thought that that soon there will be millions of children in
> > countries such as Nigeria, Brazil, Uruguay or Nepal[*] who have the
> > potential to learn to program, but tragic if the Python community is too
> > arrogant to consider it acceptable to use anything but English and ASCII.
> 
> You could say the same about Python standard library and keywords then.  

You're mixing apples and peaches: identifiers (variable names) are 
part of the user interface for the programmer and free to his 
diposition.

Thorsten