[Python-Dev] Assignment to None

[Nick Coghlan]

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> If I recall correctly, Jython handles this by appending a trailing
> underscore to the imported name and there's no reason why we couldn't
> do something similar.

It also has the virtue of being the common convention for attribute 
names that shadow keywords even in CPython (e.g. unittest.TestCase.assert_).

Cheers,
Nick.

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