pre-PEP: The create statement

[Michele Simionato]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> 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.

I am impressed by your eyeball ability! I was unable to disentangle the
false
positive, so I was forced to write the script ;)