[Python-ideas] English builtins for Python
Steve Howell
showell30 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 20 16:19:07 CEST 2007
--- Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net>
wrote:
> > Top 500 words that are already
> > keywords/builtins/conventions in Python:
> >
> > 27 or
> > 49 each
>
> each is a keyword? I don't think so. else is a
> keyword.
>
I take back "each."
> > 55 if
> > 189 try
> > 198 self
>
> self is not a keyword, its a convention.
>
You're not reading very carefully. Scroll up, I said
"keywords/builtins/conventions."
>
> next is not a keyword. its the name of a method of
> an iterator.
> there are a lot of more methods in python which are
> single words.
> why don't list them, too? ;)
>
63 write
102 new
163 read
245 close
Having listed those, it's actually kind of striking
how few "common" English words have general enough
meaning to be "common" programming words.
http://www.world-english.org/english500.htm
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