[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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