"as" keyword woes

[Robert Kern]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> While I feel sympathy for the OP, I do have to ask: he's been using 
> Python 2.5 for, what, a couple of years now? How many times did he see 
> the depreciation warning, and almost certainly the pending depreciation 
> warning before that? Python-dev has been talking about making "as" a 
> keyword since at least Python 2.3. Why wait until after version 2.6 is 
> released before saying anything?

It's entirely possible that he did not see the warning. Python 2.5 has a bug 
where the warning gets silenced by an intervening import.

http://bugs.python.org/issue3936

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Robert Kern

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