On Apr 24, 2015, at 11:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >It seems to me that tools that search for r"^\s*def\s+spam\s*\(" are They would likely search for something like r"^\s*def\s+[a-zA-Z0-9_]+" which will hit "def async spam" but not "async def". Cheers, -Barry