[Python-Dev] Assignment to None

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> The question is, what is the specification for Python.

Now, that's a more interesting question than the question originally
asked (which I interpreted as "why does it work the way it works").

The only indication in the specification of that feature I could find
was:

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/constants.html

"Changed in version 2.4: Assignments to None are illegal and raise a
SyntaxError."

Now, given that this talks about the built-in namespace, this *doesn't*
specify that foo.None=1 should also raise a syntax error.

So the implementation apparently deviates from the specification.

In Python 3, None, True, and False are keywords, so clearly, the
intended semantics is also the implemented one (and the language
description for 2.x needs to be updated/clarified).

Regards,
Martin