In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> 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 > Also, keywords are only reserved in the context of identifiers. They can certainly appear as string literals used as dictionary keys: attributes["class"] = "algebra" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
