[Python-Dev] What it takes to change a single keyword. (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 04:42:54 CEST 2011

2011/10/1 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

First of all, I am sincerely sorry if this is wrong mailing list to ask this question. I checked out definitions of couple other mailing list, and this one seemed most suitable. Here is my question: In principle, python-list would be more appropriate, but this really is a border case. So welcome!

Let's say I want to change a single keyword, let's say import keyword, to be spelled as something else, like it's translation to my language. I guess it would be more complicated than modifiying Grammar/Grammar, but I can't be sure which files should get edited. Hmm. I also think editing Grammar/Grammar should be sufficient. Try restricting yourself to ASCII keywords first; this just worked fine for me.

For any changes where that isn't sufficient, then http://docs.python.org/devguide/grammar.html provides a helpful list of additional places to check (and http://docs.python.org/devguide/compiler.html provides info on how it all hangs together).

However, rather than changing the keywords, it would likely be better to allow alternate keywords to avoid the problem Martin mentioned with existing Python code failing to run (including the entire standard library).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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