> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? why? Yes. I want this for years. I am Chinese, and teaching some 12 years old children learning programming. The biggest problem is we cannot use Chinese words for the identifiers. As the program source becomes longer, they always lost their thought about the program logic.
English keywords and libraries is not the problem, because we only use about 30 - 50 of these words for teaching programming idea. They can remember these words in one week. But for the name of variable or function, it is difficult to remember all the English word. For example, when we are doing numbers, maybe these words: [odd, even, prime, minus ...], when we are programming for drawing: [line, circle, pixel, ...], when it's for GUI: [ button, event, menu...]. There are so many words that they cannot just remeber and use these words to explain there idea. Eventlly, when these children go to high school and study enough English, I think they can use English words for programming. But as the beginning step, it is difficult to learn both programming and English. So, I made a little program, just replace all the Chinese words in the program to some sequency identifiers such as [a1, a2, a3, ...], So we can do programming in Chinese, and Python can still run it. If non-ASCII identifiers becomes true, I think it will be the best gift for Children who donot know English. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
