[Python-ideas] relaxing keyword usage restrictions

[H Krishnan]

>
> Wrong. It's for the community to decide. The python community regularly decides to reject changes for no more reason than they might confuse a reader and provide no real benefit. Your examples show no benefit, and are obviously confusing.
>
Not sure I understand this point very well. Could I start a separate
thread to say that Python should grab 'was' and 'were' as keywords so
that a user is not able to write:
if was is were:
   was = not were

Sorry, that was tongue in cheek...

Regards,
Krishnan