[Edu-sig] Re: Least used builtins?

[Jason Cunliffe]

> Quiz question:  what makes something a "keyword" versus a "builtin"
> other than that some appear on one list, some on the other?

Yes and a simple witness to that observation is perhaps the Python syntax
highlighting settings for my text editor of choice -UltraEdit.

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