On 1/19/2011 11:31 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
If we decide to reject non-ASCII module names, it should be done on any operating systems, not only on Windows.
Since Python allows non-ASCII variable names, I think it should allow non-ASCII module names also, on any platform that supports the appropriate characters in the filesystem.
Since some platforms already accept them, dropping them would be incompatible.
If Victor already has a patch coded (i.e. the work is basically done, no waiting in line 3), I'm even more in favor of it. If it took lots of future hard work, and no one volunteered to do it, that would perhaps be justification for retaining module name restrictions. I guess that is not the case here, so...
+1 on supporting full Unicode module names on all platforms.
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