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

[David Mertz]

So does NumPy and sckit-learn use the trailing underscore convention.
Albeit, sklearn uses it for (almost) all the model attributes, not just
those it thinks might clash.

On Mon, May 14, 2018, 2:12 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 5/14/2018 10:02 AM, Clint Hepner 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.
>
> Tkinter uses this convention for a few option names that clash.
>
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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