[Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 01, 2010, at 09:56 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

>2010/7/30 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
>>
>> It looks like Benjamin's change in r67171 was the relevant diff.
>
>The reason behind this was to make __debug__ assignment consistent
>with that of other reserved names. For example, x.None = 3 raised and
>thus, so should x.__debug__ = 3.

BTW, thanks to Georg for closing the documentation issue.
-Barry
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