[Python-Dev] Simple syntax proposal: "not is"

2008-01-25 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
I'm writing a source code editor that translates identifiers and keywords on-screen into a different natural language. This tool will do no transformations except at the reversible word level. There is one simple, avoidable case where this results in nonsense in many languages: "is not". I propose

[Python-Dev] Extend reST spec to allow automatic recognition of identifiers in comments?

2008-01-13 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
This is a VERY VERY rough draft of a PEP. The idea is that there should be some formal way that reST parsers can differentiate (in docstrings) between variable/function names and identical English words, within comments. PEP: XXX Title: Catching unmarked identifiers in docstrings Version: 0.0.0.0.

[Python-Dev] Extend reST spec to allow automatic recognition of identifiers in comments?

2008-01-05 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
This is a VERY VERY rough draft of a PEP. The idea is that there should be some formal way that reST parsers can differentiate (in docstrings) between variable/function names and identical English words, within comments. PEP: XXX Title: Catching unmarked identifiers in docstrings Version: 0.0.0.0.