[Python-Dev] New Future Keywords (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Mon Mar 6 00:39:26 CET 2006

On 3/6/06, Thomas Lee <krumms at gmail.com> wrote:

Just a quick question: how can I add new future keywords to Python? I need to add a new (Python) keyword to the language, but there seems to be a few different source files that I need to modify.

Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way before I go unleashing a nasty broken patch into the world :)

I wouldn't bother with a future statement until your patch has a chance of being included in Python. Adding one later is just as easy as adding one now, and you have a good chance of getting someone else to do it for you. That's what Guido did with the with-statement patch; he got Neal to do it for him ;) But if you really want to do it yourself, I would suggest grokking the with-statement future-import patch I checked in last week (written mostly by Neal Norwitz, with inspiration stolen from Michael Hudson's patch):

svn diff -r42666:42667 http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk

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