[Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" is illegal in Python 2.7?

[Guilherme Polo]

2010/7/30 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 01:42 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>Well it is a reserved name so those packages that were setting it
>>should have known that they were using undefined behavior that could
>>change at any time.
>
> Shouldn't it be described here then?
>
> http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
>

Doesn't the section
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#reserved-classes-of-identifiers
make this clear enough ?

> -Barry
>
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