[Python-Dev] Assignment to None (original) (raw)

Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org
Fri Jun 13 05:17:34 CEST 2008

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbicki at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote: > If I recall correctly, Jython handles this by appending a trailing > underscore to the imported name and there's no reason why we couldn't > do something similar. In truth the current implementation of Jython allows keywords in many strange places, I expect this was done to allow for method names that are not keywords in Java so, for example, if there is a method called "print" in a Java class that we want to call (quite common) then it can be called. As far as I know appended underscores don't enter into it.

After posting that message, I did what I should have done initially which was to ask Jim Hugunin about it. He said that Jython had gotten Guido's blessing to parse keywords in a context-sensitive fashion -- so that "foo.{keyword}" might be considered legal under certain circumstances. I don't, alas, have any specific cites to that end, but I suspect that we'll be following that precedent :).

-- Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org

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