Ben Finney wrote:
> "Veek. M" <vek.m1...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> class Foo(object):
>> pass
>>
>> object is a keyword and you're using it as an identifier
>
> Python does not have ‘object’ as a keyword. ‘and’ is a keyword.
>
> Here's the difference::
>
> >>> object
> <class 'object'>
> >>> object = "Lorem ipsum"
> >>> object
> 'Lorem ipsum'
>
> >>> and
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> and
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> and = "Lorem ipsum"
> File "<stdin>", line 1
> and = "Lorem ipsum"
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Here is how you can test whether a word is a Python keyword::
>
> >>> import keyword
> >>> keyword.iskeyword('object')
> False
> >>> keyword.iskeyword('and')
> True
>
> The set of keywords in Python is quite small.
>
> >>> len(keyword.kwlist)
> 33
>
Oh awesome - thanks - that's a neat module. Yeah, basically keywords are
part of the language but not punctuation - kind of like how you had to
do: print 'foo' in 2.x - part of the grammar of the language. Dunno why
i muffed that.. 'object's a class anyhow so it couldn't be a keyword
(inherited with its methods etc) - thanks for catching that and sorry
for the delay.. saw that today.
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