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Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 22:00:59 EST 2011 
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:47:46 -0600, Evan Driscoll wrote:
>
> [...]
>> so unless you're opposed to using an editor more
>> advanced than Notepad, you'll type in "varargs", it'll turn purple or
>> whatever, and you'll go "oh that's a keyword."
>
> Not everybody uses editors more advanced than Notepad. Even those who do
> may not have an editor that understands Python keywords, or has an
> obsolete list of keywords (my editor of choice doesn't know about
> NotImplementedError).

Probably because NotImplementedError is not a keyword.
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