Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > Hang on a second. No one is *imposing* new restrictions. Python > uses ASCII-only identifiers today and has always been that way.
That restriction clearly wasn't imposed on the standard www.python.org windows distributions of Python - for quite a few versions already. See below. Cheers, Boris Borcic Python 2.4.2 (#67, Jan 17 2006, 15:36:03) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. **************************************************************** Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback interface. This connection is not visible on any external interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet. **************************************************************** IDLE 1.1.2 >>> ça_marchait = 1 >>> print ça_marchait 1 ========================================================================== Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. **************************************************************** Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback interface. This connection is not visible on any external interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet. **************************************************************** IDLE 1.2 >>> ça_marche = 2 >>> à_l_évidence = 3 >>> ça_marche + à_l_évidence 5 _______________________________________________ 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