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

[Fredrik Lundh]

Antoon Pardon wrote:

> One place where I would use such a feature is in a unittest
> package.  I think being able to write self.assert or self.raise
> looks better than having to append an underscore.

patch here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-June/047996.html

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