On May 15, 2013, at 12:54 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > On May 15, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On May 15, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >= would certainty not be a valid name. So I agree with you about >>> >restrictions except possibly on the set of allowed characters. >>> >>> Of course the weird names aren't on pypi yet, the current tooling has bad >>> Unicode support. >>> >>> Pep 3131 pretty much sums up this issue and the objections exactly, if you >>> search/replace. It begins: >>> >>> Python code is written by many people in the world who are not familiar >>> with the English language, or even well-acquainted with the Latin writing >>> system. Such developers often desire to define classes and functions with >>> names in their native languages, rather than having to come up with an >>> (often incorrect) English translation of the concept they want to name. By >>> using identifiers in their native language, code clarity and >>> maintainability of the code among speakers of that language improves. >>> >> The contexts are different. It's unlikely that someone in the same codebase >> is going to attempt to trick you into running function named fοο instead of >> foo (those are different by the way). However it is a very simple attack to >> tell newcomers to ``pip install Djangο`` instead of ``pip install Django`` >> (again different). >> >> ----------------- >> Donald Stufft >> PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > Perhaps this better explains my point: http://d.stufft.io/image/2t021y342a1d > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig And an install log, just to prove it's possible: https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5581735 ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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