Martin v. Löwis wrote:
I think the OP (haiyang kang) already indicated that he finds it quite
unlikely that anybody would possibly want to enter that.
Who's talking about *entering* it into the program at a keyboard
directly, though? Input to a program can come from all kinds of crazy
sources. Just because it wasn't typed by the person at the keyboard
using this program doesn't stop it being input to the program.
I think haiyang kang claimed exactly that - it won't ever be input to a
program. I trust him on that - and so should you, unless you have
sufficient experience with the Chinese language and writing system.
Note that I'm not saying this is common. Nor am I saying it's a
desirable situation. I'm saying it is a feasible use case, to be
dismissed only if there is strong evidence that it's not used by
existing Python code.
And indeed, for the Chinese numerals, we have such strong evidence.
With full respect to haiyang kang, hear-say from one person can hardly
be described as "strong" evidence -- particularly, as Alexander
Belopolsky pointed out, the use-case described isn't currently supported
by Python. Given that what haiyang kang describes *can't* be done, the
fact that people don't do it is hardly surprising -- nor is it a good
reason for taking away functionality that does exist.
--
Steven
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