Are Python's reserved words reserved in places they dont need to be?

[Paul Rubin]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:
> This is just an idea of mine, nothing I expect python to adapt.
> But just suppose the language allowed for words in bold. A word
> in bold would be considered a reserved word, a word in non bold
> would be an identifier. 

Heh, sounds like ColorForth, in which words meant different things
depending on what color they were written in (www.colorforth.com).
Madness, if you ask me ;-).