[Python-Dev] None as a keyword / class methods

Ken Manheimer klm@digicool.com
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 18:05:08 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 pf@artcom-gmbh.de wrote:

> Hi Barry!
> 
> > >>>>> "PF" == Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de> writes:
> > 
> >     |     try:
> >     |         del None
> >     |     except SyntaxError:
> >     |         pass # Wow running Py3K here!
>  
> Barry A. Warsaw:
> > I know how to break your Py3K code: stick None=None some where higher
> > up :)

Huh.  Does anyone really think we're going to catch SyntaxError at
runtime, ever?  Seems like the code fragment above wouldn't work in the
first place.

But i suppose, with most of a millennium to emerge, py3k could have more
fundamental changes than i could even imagine...-)

Ken
klm@digicool.com