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Commonly-used names in the Python standard library

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Feb 21 01:43:47 EST 2014 
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:09:19 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Python has a facility like this. It doesn't namespace the keywords, but
>> it does let you choose whether to have them or not. In Python 2.5, you
>> could type "from __future__ import with_statement" to turn 'with' into
>> a keyword. After Python 2.6, it's always a keyword.
> 
> That certainly softens the blow but might still cause unnecessary
> suffering when maintaining/resurrecting legacy Python code.
> 
> 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__.

What *actual* problem is this supposed to solve? Do you often find that 
Python has introduced new keywords, breaking your code?



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Steven
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