anomaly

[Gregory Ewing]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> But that doesn't answer the question why the developers chose "True" to be a
> keyword and "int" to be a looked-up name.

Probably because True, False and None are very frequently
used constants. Making them keywords means that things
like 'while True:' don't incur the overhead of a name
lookup every time around the loop.

The same doesn't apply to other built-in names, which
are used much less frequently.

-- 
Greg