assigning to None vs. assigning to as

[Michael Hudson]

Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> writes:

> Is the reason for the SyntaxWarning raised when assigning to None that it
> may one day be a keywoard?

Yes.

> If so,
>     then shouldn't assigning to as have the same behaviour, 

Maybe.  There was a bug on sf that went "as should be a proper
keyword".  It was recently closed "wontfix"/"can't be bothered".

I can't see how this is anything other than the tiniest of issues.

Cheers,
M.

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