True

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Mon Oct 20 11:59:27 EDT 2003


In article <bn0cf2$liu$01$1 at news.t-online.com>,
 Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> I suppose David tries to avoid a syntax error raised by the assignment
> 
> True = somethingElse
> 
> in a future version of Python. Therefore he has "hidden" the builtins to be
> assigned from the compiler by turning them into strings.

Yes, exactly.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science




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