On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:24:37 -0500 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > While we have little choice but to follow UCD in defining > str.isidentifier(), I think Python can promise users more stability in > what it treats as space or as a digit in its builtins.
Well, if "unicode support" means "support the latest version of the Unicode standard", I'm not sure we have a choice. We can make exceptions, but that would only confuse users even more, wouldn't it? > For example, > I don't think that supporting > > >>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') > 1234.56 > > is more important than to assure users that once their program > accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is > ASCII. Why would they assume the text is ASCII? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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