[Python-Dev] Python 1.7 tokenization feature request

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 gvwilson@nevex.com wrote:

> Once 1.6 is out the door, would people be willing to consider extending
> Python's token set to make HTML/XML-ish spellings using entity references
> legal?  This would make the following 100% legal Python:
> 
> i = 0
> while i < 10:
>     print i & 1
>     i = i + 1
> 
> which would in turn make it easier to embed Python in XML such as
> config-files-for-whatever-Software-Carpentry-produces-to-replace-make,
> PMZ, and so on.

Why? Whatever XML parser you use will output "i&lt;1" as "i<1", so 
the Python that comes out of the XML parser is quite all right. Why change
Python to do an XML parser job?
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