On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: .. >> 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. >
Indeed: it over 10 years that Python's int() accepted Arabic-Indic numerals, nobody has complained that it *did not* accept Chinese. _______________________________________________ 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
