On 04/28, Yury Selivanov wrote: >>> This limitation will go away as soon as ``async`` and ``await`` ate >>> proper keywords. Or if it's decided to use a future import for this >>> PEP. `async` and `await` need to be proper keywords, and __future__ imports is how we do that (see, e.g., PEP 355 and and PEP 343) -- ~Ethan~