Re: Python Worst Practices

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python Worst Practices
Date	2015-03-01 13:29 +1300
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> Likewise REXX has no reserved words; also, SQL went part-way there,
> with the notion of "non-reserved keywords".

Python sometimes has those, too. For example, the "as" in
"import as" was non-reserved when it was first introduced,
to avoid abruptly breaking code that used it as a name.

-- 
Greg

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Re: Python Worst Practices Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2015-02-27 13:21 -0800
  Re: Python Worst Practices Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-28 12:09 +1100
    Re: Python Worst Practices sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-02-27 17:32 -0800
      Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-28 12:44 +1100
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          Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 22:12 +1100
            Re: Python Worst Practices Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-03-03 23:46 +0100
              Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-04 10:12 +1100
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