Am 19.01.2011 21:32, schrieb Terry Reedy: > On 1/19/2011 7:34 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I patched Python 3.2 to support modules with non-ASCII paths (*). It >> works well on all operating systems. But the task is not completly >> done: >> >> (a) Python 3 doesn't support non-ASCII module names (b) Python 3 >> doesn't support unencodable characters in the module path >> >> I would like to know if we need to support that. Terry J. Reedy >> wrote (issue #10828): "I think bugs in core syntax should have high >> priority. I appreciate your work toward fixing it." > > I am a little shocked at the so-far tepid response to (a), so let me > defend and explain my claim that it is a bug. > > In the simplest case (from 6.11. The import statement and 2.3. > Identifiers and keywords) > > import_stmt ::= "import" module > module ::= indentifier > identifier ::= <appropriate Unicode start and continue chars> > > There is nothing, nothing, about any restriction on identifiers.
+1. The restriction on valid identifiers is very sensible (obviously, since "m" needs to be accessible after "import m"), but a further restriction seems just arbitrary. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
