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On 30/07/2010 21:53, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Jul 30, 2010, at 01:42 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well it is a reserved name so those packages that were setting it
should have known that they were using undefined behavior that could
change at any time.
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Shouldn't it be described here then?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers">http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers</a>
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And raise a DeprecationWarning one release before becoming invalid
syntax?<br>
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Michael<br>
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-Barry
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