Why is "as" not a keyword?

[Robert L Hicks]

Last I looked...which was 5 seconds ago..."as" is not in the keyword list. I
am sure if it is ever added then IDLE will be updated to reflect that.

> From: grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb)
> Organization: We're organized?!
> Reply-To: morpheus at here.not.there
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:07:03 -0000
> Subject: Re: Why is "as" not a keyword?
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:23:35 -0800, Jesse W <jessw at loop.com> wrote:
>> Most people know about the functionality of the import statement that
>> in IDLE, and import lights up as a keyword, but "as", which has to be
>> there and is clearly part of the syntax, does not.  If this question has
>> been answered already, pardon me; I have not seen the answer anywhere.
> 
> What are you asking?  Just because an IDE (or editor) does not highlight a
> word doesn't mean it isn't a keyword in the language.  In this case it sounds
> like something to take up with IDLE's mantainer.
> 
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