Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> I think the OP (haiyang kang) already indicated that he finds it quite >>> unlikely that anybody would possibly want to enter that. >> Who's talking about *entering* it into the program at a keyboard >> directly, though? Input to a program can come from all kinds of crazy >> sources. Just because it wasn't typed by the person at the keyboard >> using this program doesn't stop it being input to the program. > > I think haiyang kang claimed exactly that - it won't ever be input to a > program. I trust him on that - and so should you, unless you have > sufficient experience with the Chinese language and writing system. > >> 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. With full respect to haiyang kang, hear-say from one person can hardly be described as "strong" evidence -- particularly, as Alexander Belopolsky pointed out, the use-case described isn't currently supported by Python. Given that what haiyang kang describes *can't* be done, the fact that people don't do it is hardly surprising -- nor is it a good reason for taking away functionality that does exist. -- Steven
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