[Python-ideas] Syntax idea: escaping names to avoid keyword ambiguity

[Daniel Moisset]

On 14 May 2018 at 15:02, Clint Hepner <clint.hepner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 2018 May 14 , at 6:47 a, Daniel Moisset <dmoisset at machinalis.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Following up some of the discussions about the problems of adding
> keywords and Guido's proposal of making tokenization context-dependent, I
> wanted to propose an alternate way to go around the problem.
>
> My main objection to what follows is that it doesn't seem to offer any
> benefit over the current practice of appending an underscore (_) to a
> keyword to make it a valid identifier.
>
>
A secondary benefit I forgot to mention in my previous reply (and which is
not covered by adding an underscore suffix) is that the original name being
preserved it's better for interfacing with external systems that may use
those names:

For example, this code:
https://github.com/dsc/pyquery/blob/fd725469701a8f47840f142df5c9b6d4479ea58e/pyquery/pyquery.py#L584
(and some code below that) is essentially a workaround that is required
because they used a "_" suffix ibecause it's hard to pass "class" or "for"
as keys in **kwargs

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