On 25Apr2011 22:33, haael <haael@interia.pl> wrote: | @ Mike Graham | >>Of course, if a keyword is not preceded by a dot, it would be treated as a | >>reserved word, just like now. | >>>with = 3 # syntax error | >I don't see how this is a real improvement over the current | >convention, to add a trailing underscore, so that programs really | >needing to use the name "with" would use "with_". [...] | But the trailing underscore is treated as a part of an identifier, | while the preceding dot is not. This is important if I want to have | an identifier named exactly "with", with no other characters (no pun | itended). | | As I said, I want sometimes to import some non-Python namespace, | i.e. a Pascal program. If all identifiers are allowed, there would | never be a clash of reserved words. Does your proposal help with non-Python namespaces with different identifier rules? I know this is a little snarky, but I've certainly seen real world stuff with "$" as a valid identifier character. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ But then, I'm only 50. Things may well get a bit much for me when I reach the gasping heights of senile decrepitude of which old Andy Woodward speaks with such feeling. - Chris Malcolm, cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh, DoD #205