metaperl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > metaperl schrieb: > > > --> python -i > > >>>> class = "algebra" > > > File "<stdin>", line 1 > > > class = "algebra" > > > ^ > > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > > > > > > > > Why isn' t the parser smart enough to see that class followed by an > > > the few reserved words won't matter usually. > > woe be unto the ORMs who try to map database columns to Python > attributes.
I'm gonna skip my usual anti-ORM rant, because there ARE valid case for "mapping external names to Python identifiers" -- e.g., remote protocols such as XML-RPC, automatic constructers of FF interfaces, etc. Such code generators -- targeting ANY language currently alive -- obviously have to possess some minimal knowledge of the target language's syntax, and the obvious solution is to systematically transform identifiers which would otherwise be keywords. The one most popular convention is to append an underscore -- so that 'pass' becomes 'pass_', and so on. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
