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

[metaperl]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> metaperl schrieb:
> >   -->  python -i
> >>>> class = "algebra"
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1
> >     class = "algebra"
> >           ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
> >
> > Why isn' t the parser smart enough to see that class followed by an

>  the few reserved words won't matter usually.

woe be unto the ORMs who try to map database columns to Python
attributes.