In message <vedta6d9i8no1h6cmkb5nl7np5lfov1...@4ax.com>, Tim Roberts wrote:
> This kind of confusion is, in my opinion, the primary reason why
> parentheses should never be used with "del" and "return", as we so
> commonly see.
It’s the kind of “confusion” that could be cleared up with 30 seconds’
access to a Python interpreter:
l...@theon:~> python3.1
Python 3.1.2 (release31-maint, Sep 26 2010, 16:45:30)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print
<built-in function print>
>>> del
File "<stdin>", line 1
del
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> return
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: 'return' outside function
If that doesn’t hint to you that “del” and “return” are not functions, I
don’t know what does...
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