[Python-ideas] relaxing keyword usage restrictions

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 07, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>>> class Foo:
...    """I'm still -1 myself, but such a delimited approach at least has the
...    virtue of addressing the *entire* scope of the identifier syntax
...    limitation rather than singling out keywords for special treatment.
...
...    Legitimate use cases for such a feature would include at least those
...    currently handled by the 'rename' flag on the namedtuple constructor
...    (the latter would still be needed to handle duplicate field names,
...    but illegal identifiers could just be quoted).
...    """ = False

frightening-ly y'rs,
-Barry
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