Mike Meyer wrote: > Out of random curiosity, is there a PEP/thread/? that explains why > Python symbols are restricted to 7-bit ascii?
No PEP yet; I meant to write one for several years now. The principles would be - sources must use encoding declarations - valid identifiers would follow the Unicode consortium guidelines, in particular: identifiers would be normalized in NFKC (I think), adjusted in the ASCII range for backward compatibility (i.e. not introducing any additional ASCII characters as legal identifier characters) - __dict__ will contain Unicode keys - all objects should support Unicode getattr/setattr (potentially raising AttributeError, of course) - open issue: what to do on the C API (perhaps nothing, perhaps allowing UTF-8) Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
