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Re: python for everyday tasks

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Date 2013-11-23 18:25 +1100
Subject Re: python for everyday tasks
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3072.1385191508.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Teach that python has builtins, not keywords - IOW, you can redefine list or
> int, but you probably shouldn't.  pylint helps with this.

Well, Python has keywords, but uses builtins for many things that
other languages use keywords (or magic) for.

>>> None=1
SyntaxError: assignment to keyword
>>> list=[]
>>> del list

ChrisA

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python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-22 15:59 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-23 02:01 +0000
    Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 02:12 -0800
      Re: python for everyday tasks Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-25 13:33 +0000
      Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-25 08:11 -0700
        Re: python for everyday tasks wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 08:17 -0800
      Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 02:38 +1100
      Re: python for everyday tasks Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-26 10:35 +1100
      Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 11:09 +1100
    Re: python for everyday tasks Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 22:05 +0400
    Re: python for everyday tasks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 11:15 -0700
    Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:11 +1100
  Re: python for everyday tasks Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-22 18:32 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:28 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-11-22 22:36 -0800
  Re: python for everyday tasks Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-23 18:25 +1100
    Re: python for everyday tasks koch.mate@gmail.com - 2013-11-23 16:54 -0800

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