Hello everyone, If you use Python only to teach the very basic ideas of programming to beginners, and if your students normally use a non-ascii based alphabet language (and thus may struggle with entering Python keywords), you might be interested in something I am working on:
https://github.com/aroberge/nonstandard nonstandard allows one to use code transformations defined in a simple way to change Python's standard syntax. [This ide of using "simple native language keywords" was mentioned by Terry Reddy as something desirable to implement for IDLE https://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2015-October/003642.html.] A list of the available transformations is found here: https://github.com/aroberge/nonstandard/tree/master/nonstandard/transformers As a demonstration, I have included a transformation that makes it possible to use a French version of Python's keywords. Personally, I would not use this version as a teaching tool, since the English alphabet is a subset of the French one, ... but it was the only language I was confident enough to use as a demonstration. ;-) I realize that this may be of interest to only a few people on this list, and do not mind if you reply to me directly André P.S. CS professionals will likely recoil in horror if they look at the code and see what I did to make this work. As someone with no formal CS education, my coding motto is "do the simplest thing that works".
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