On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Atsuo Ishimoto <ishim...@gembook.org> > wrote: > > > > I don't want Python to encourage people to use non-ascii module names. > > I don't think anybody is *encouraging* it. The argument is for > *permitting* it, partly for consistency with other identifiers, and > partly because of Python's usual "consenting adults" standard for > permitting "dangerous" practices.
I'm sorry, I was not clear. I was afraid that saying "learning opportunity" tempt people to try non-ASCII module names. In these days, even non technical people have access to Windows, Mac and Linux boxes at a time. So chances to be annoyed with broken non-ASCII named files are pretty common. > > I still don't see this as a reason to give up on non-ASCII module > names. Just have the documentation warn that many non-ASCII names > will be non-portable, so use on multiple systems will require care > (maybe gloss that with "probably more care than you want to take"). > Nice gloss. -- Atsuo Ishimoto Mail: ishim...@gembook.org Blog: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/atsuoishimoto/ Twitter: atsuoishimoto _______________________________________________ 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