Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 3)

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <vqcn9ooasi2f19 at corp.supernews.com>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> QOTW:  "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
>   --Guido van Rossum

I saw this, too! Is this a joke? It seems to contradict the FAQ entry:
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-like-some-other-languages

It does seem like the .dot .prefix would disambiguate the variable scope as
long as it is used consistently, but I must say it was a surprise to read
this...

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