Peter Hansen wrote: > Wow... Python detects "dubious syntax"? And here I thought programming > was rather black and white, it's right or it's wrong.
SyntaxWarnings are issued for things that has never been valid nor well- defined nor especially clever, but has been handled (in some more or less reasonable way) by the CPython compiler. In practice, syntax warnings will turn into errors in future releases. > (He notes examples such as assigning to None and "unqualified exec is > not allowed in function" etc.) Compare and contrast: Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) >>> None = "hello" <stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) >>> None = "hello" SyntaxError: assignment to None </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
