On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum writes: > > In Py3k we may be able to do something else though -- instead of > > insisting on ASCII we could allow a much larger set of characters to > > be unescaped. > > Yes. The implications of the PEP 3131 discussions about Unicode > identifiers should be considered carefully. Eg, consider the > potential of confusing ASCII 'A' with Cyrillic 'A'. I'm very unhappy > with the idea of having Cyrillic 'A' \u-escaped when calling repr() on > objects in a Russian's program, but I don't like the alternative of > having "print repr(bogus)" being no more informative than "print > bogus" in this situation any better.
So it sounds like we're doomed if we do, and damned if we don't. Or do I misunderstand you? Do you have a practical suggestion? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
