Why is "as" not a keyword?

[Steve Lamb]

On 23 Jan 2001 22:19:14 +0100, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>As it turns out, IDLE is updated without the keyword list being changed.

>"as" is not a keyword, it just has a special meaning in the import
>statement.

    Which is why I said the person's beef is with the editor or IDE, not with
Python itself.  If he wants as to be highlighted that is 100% the perview of
the editor.

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