Can't we just tell everyone to speak US English, and go back to ASCII? It would be a less painful migration.
-- Carl Smith carl.in...@gmail.com On 23 November 2017 at 14:16, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, then there is some bitter irony in this, so it allows pretty > > much everything, > > but does not allow me to beautify code with hyphens. > > I can fully understand the wish to use non-latin scripts in strings or > comments. > > As for identifiers, IMO, apart from latin letters and underscore, the > > first unicode candidate > > I would add is U+2010. And probably the LAST one I would add. > > > > Fortunately for the world, you're not the one who decided which > characters were permitted in Python identifiers. The ability to use > non-English words for function/variable names is of huge value; the > ability to use a hyphen is of some value, but not nearly as much. > > Can this thread move to python-list? Or, better, to > python-rants-about-unicode-list, to which I don't subscribe? > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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