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Written by "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: > Notice that Python source is represented in UTF-8 in the parser. It > might be that the C source code has a different encoding, which > would cause the strcmp to fail. No, all the files in the surce code were already in UTF-8. My system is configured to treat UTF-8 as the default encoding. This is not an encoding problem. Written by "Jack diederich" <jackd...@gmail.com>: > I love the idea (and most recently edited PEP 306) so here are a few > suggestions; > > Brazil has many python programmers so you might be able to make > quick progress by asking them for volunteer time. Yes, I have plans to ask for help in the brazilian Python mailing list when I finish to prepare the C source code for this project. Then I expect to receive help to translate the python modules for this new language. There's a lot of work to do. > To bug-hunt your technical problem: try switching the "not is" > operator to include an underscore "not_is." The python LL(1) > grammar checker works for python but isn't robust, and does miss > some grammar ambiguities. Making the operator a single word might > reveal a bug in the parser. Thanks for the advice, you almost guessed what went wrong. I made some tests and already discovered what's the problem. When I change Grammar/Grammar, Python/ast.c and Modules/parsermodule.c to transform "is not" in "not is", everything works fine and I create a new Python verson where "a is not None" is wrong and "a not is None" is right. But when I translate this to "não é", always happens a SyntaxError. So the probles is really in the grammar checker that can't handle some letters with accent. Well, knowing where the problem is, I think that I can try to solve it by myself. Thanks again. > Please consider switching your students to 'real' python part way > through the course. If they want to use the vast amount of python > code on the internet as examples they will need to know the few > English keywords. > > Also - most python core developers are not native English speakers > and do OK :) PyCon speakers are about 25% non-native English > speakers and EuroPython speakers are about the reverse (my rough > estimate - I'd love to see some hard numbers). Yes, I know. To a more "serious" programmer, it's essential to have a basic understanding in english and would be better for him to start with the real Python. But my intent is not to substitute Python in Brazil, but to create a new language that could be learned easily by younger people for educational purposes. My intent is to show them how a computer software works. But surely I will warn my students that to take programming more seriously, it's important to learn how to program in some other language, like the original Python. But thanks for the advice. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ4jrjmNGEzq1zP84RAvikAJ4k25vufyWWiDvj3HFZ7Q4M38zCjgCglBGC dPQTd7mBuswKbNstpJqRuFE= =xApj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
