On May 25, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Jim Jewett wrote: > You're missing "here is this neat code from sourceforge", or "Here is > something I cut-and-pasted from ASPN". If those use something outside > of ASCII, that's fine -- so long as they tell you about it. > > If you didn't realize it was using non-ASCII (or even that it could), > and the author didn't warn you -- then that is an appropriate time for > the interpreter to warn you that things aren't as you expect.
Why? If, today, I download a python module (say, from pypi) that does something I need, I don't read the source code, I just import/run it. In the future, why should I even give one whit of concern that a module I download and don't inspect the source code of may use non- ascii characters internally? The answer, for me, is simple: I shouldn't care, and the python interpreter shouldn't force me to care. If I later choose to examine the source code, maybe *then* I care, but that has nothing to do with the python interpreter. James _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
