[Pythonmac-SIG] weird syntax error (bug?): self.from

[Ben Coburn]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Jack Jansen wrote:

> 
> > class foo:
> > 	def __init__(self):
> > 		self.from = 'fubar'
> > 
> > It generates a syntax error somewhere within self.from.
> 
> Yep, from is a reserved word ("from foo import *") so you can't use it as an 
> identifier.
>

Hummm. What I have been wondering is that with Python designed to be
easy to code/read... why doesn't it us the Java syntax "import foo.*". 
This would be much more consistent with "import foo" than "from foo
import *". I guess that it is this way to discurage people from using
"from foo import *". In that case it is a subtler hint tword good
programming style, than Java's simply outlawing pointers for example.

				Regards, Ben Coburn

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