On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 1:22 PM MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

On the third hand(!), 'as' is used in the 'import' and 'with'
statements, where it binds to only one preceding item.

Thanks. Yes, that was what I was thinking that it's weird for "as" to have different precedence in different statements, and I should have said that explicitly.

EIBTI of course.

--- Bruce