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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:19:25 +1100
Subject: Re: Commonly-used names in the Python standard library
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> How about blocking the introduction of new keywords for ever except if
> you specify:
>
>    from __py35__ import syntax
>
> Eventually, every Python module would likely begin with a statement like
> that, and it would document the assumption more clearly than __future__.

It's more self-documenting with the __future__ directive, because it
says *what* syntax you're importing from the future. And at some
point, the new keywords must just become standard. There's no point
polluting every Python script forever with these directives, and no
point maintaining two branches of code in the interpreter.

ChrisA