[ python-Bugs-691733 ] Let assign to as raise SyntaxWarning as well

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Bugs item #691733, was opened at 2003-02-23 18:08
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Category: Parser/Compiler
>Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 2
Submitted By: Gerrit Holl (gerrit)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Let assign to as raise SyntaxWarning as well

Initial Comment:
according to the Python Language Reference Manual:
> In some future version of Python, the identifiers
> as and None will both become keywords.

Hence, it seems natural to me to raise a SyntaxWarning
when assigning to
either of these. However, the current Python
implementation doesn't:

103 >>> None="foo"
<stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None
104 >>> as="foo"
105 >>>

For consistency and cleanliness, assignment to 'as'
should raise a SyntaxWarning as well. Currently, it's
possible to not know it'll be a keyword and use it as a
variable; people shouldn't, so a SyntaxWarning would be
good.

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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-05-31 13:23

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This may be too late if as becomes a keyword in the new
with/do/whatever-statement...

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Comment By: Gerrit Holl (gerrit)
Date: 2003-02-23 18:21

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I'm not sure whether this should be considered as a feature.
I'd call it a minor wart... I'm also not sure about the
category, is this 'Python interpreter core' or am I right
with 'parser/compiler'?

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