Lennart Regebro writes: > *I* think it is more important. In python 3, you can never ever assume > anything is ASCII any more.
Sure you can. In Python program text, all keywords will be ASCII (English, even, though it may be en_NL.UTF-8<wink>) for the forseeable future. I see no reason not to make a similar promise for numeric literals. I see no good reason to allow compatibility full-width Japanese "ASCII" numerals or Arabic cursive numerals in "for i in range(...)" for example. As soon as somebody gives an example of a culture, however minor, that uses computers but actively prefers to use non-ASCII numerals to express numbers in an IT context, I'll review my thinking. But at the moment it's 101% YAGNI. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
