[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Pre-pre PEP for 'super' keyword (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Apr 30 01:30:18 CEST 2007

On 4/29/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

So it is a "keyword" in the sense that None is a keyword; not in the stronger sense that "if" is a keyword?

Um, how do you see those two differ? Is 'if' a keyword in the same sense as 'or', or in a different sense?

I realize that in Python 2.5, None is not a full-fledged keyword but cannot be used as an assignment target. But that's only transitional. In 3.0 I imagine it becoming a keyword in the grammar (whose only appearance would be as one of the alternatives for 'atom'). And we're talking 3.0 here.

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