New submission from Dan Snider <mr.assume.a...@gmail.com>:
keyword.py is used by stuff like the idle colorizer to help determine if an identifier is considered a keyword but it doesn't identify __debug__ despite the fact that the parser treats it exactly the same as None, True, and False. I could not find a more recent issue to bring this back up than #34464 and there it was suggested a issue be made so here it is. As mentioned on that previous issue, currently keyword.py builds the list automatically by scanning "Python/graminit.c" but since there is no "__debug__" token to be found in that file it doesn't get added to kwlist. There is a file that groups the keywords True, False, None, and __debug__: ast.c. But there's no reason for it to be that complicated when nothing would break by for example adding on line 54 of keyword.py the statement "kwlist += ['__debug__']? Actually, I'm interested in knowing why __debug__ is a keyword in the first place. I'm terrible at searching apparently so there might be more but from what I can tell, the only thing the docs have to say about __debug__ really is the following tautology: "The value for the built-in variable [__debug__] is determined when the interpreter starts." ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 335605 nosy: bup priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: __debug__ is a keyword but not a keyword type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36000> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
