object as a reserved keyword

[Ian Bicking]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 04:29, Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
> Does it worth to make "object" keyword a reserved one?
> I'd like to avoid oddities like this:
> 
> Python 2.3c1 (#44, Jul 18 2003, 14:32:36) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> class c(object): pass
> ...
> >>> object = 4
> >>> class c(object): pass
> ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: int() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)
> >>>

That's not odd or even bad... so you get an exception.  That can happen
all the time when you do silly things.  Now...

    class object: pass

*That* would be bad, cause later on you'll do...


    class Whatever(object):
        ...
        x = property(get_x, set_x)

I can totally imagine going nuts trying to figure out what went wrong
with that...

  Ian