learning python ...

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon May 24 14:48:58 EDT 2021


On 2021-05-24, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 	Attempting to rebind a keyword in Python will produce an error...
>
>>>> if = 1.234
> Traceback (  File "<interactive input>", line 1
>     if = 1.234
>        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I must admit it might be nice if the compiler told you _why_ the
syntax is invalid (e.g. "expected conditional expression while parsing
'if' statement").

It's usually fairly obvious, but...

--
Grant





More information about the Python-list mailing list