international python

[Skaperen]

has anyone modified Python to accept foreign language translations of keywords so that a Python script can be written entirely in a foreign language?

[Gribouillis]

I once wrote a preprocessor using french keywords and translating the source file to english.

[wavic]

Hm! How does it happen a source to be written in a foreign language in the first place? It's strange to me.

[Skaperen]

maybe someone who was born in foobarland and grew up in foobarland and learned to hear, speak, read and write foobarian would be more comfortable learning to program in a programming language which used reserved words that are also in the foobarian language.

let's try this again:

Возможно, кто-то, кто родился в России и вырос в России и научился слышать, говорить, читать и писать по-русски, было бы более удобным обучением программированию на языке программирования, в котором использовались зарезервированные слова, которые также находятся на русском языке.

ok, i cheated and used Google Translate. i hope you see the point by now. maybe you could learn to program in a programming language where all the reserved words are in Serbian.

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or maybe Pig-Latin

[wavic]

Разбирам те прекрасно, но някак си ми е неестествено.

Это по болгарский.
Я хорошо понимаю русский язык. I think.

[Skaperen]

then i guess we can sign you up to do the Russian version instead of the Bulgarian version.

Как насчет языка программирования на латинском языке?

[Larz60+]

write one in Esperanto.

[Gribouillis]

Actually, my french version of python had another great feature: it didn't have a dot operator! Instead of writing foo.bar, you could simply write foo bar.

Python doesn't need an explicit dot operator. It suffices to add a dot before each name that is not a keyword and which previous token is a name or a closing delimiter. I told this to Guido Van Rossum in a online discussion, but he didn't answer.

[DeaD_EyE]

Exchanging keywords with words from another language is totally against i18n.
Then you need a modified Interpreter and all other people who works with this code, also.

[Skaperen]

Exchanging keywords with words from another language is totally against i18n.
Then you need a modified Interpreter and all other people who works with this code, also.

we might have to change the name of the programming language, too. ... Питон