pre-PEP: The create statement

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> A quick scan of the standard library suggests that it will have
>> a grand total of 3 modules requiring a fix (it's a method name
>> in imaplib and a named argument in a couple of places in bsddb
>> and distutils). Your own code my fare worse (mine does, but not
>> by much).
>This agrees with my scan (except I also found an occurrence of 'create'
>in Tkinter).
>BTW, I would be curious to see the script you are using for the
>scanning.

Old-fashioned egrep '\Wcreate\W' and eyeball out the false positives
8-) . I missed the Tkinter one because I don't appear to have it
installed.

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