From: chadm at sgi.com (Chad McDaniel)
Date: 22 Apr 1999 10:24:48 -0700
Subject: New python user seeks comments
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Martijn Faassen <faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl> writes:

> Chad McDaniel wrote:
>  
> ['in' is a reserved word so can't be used as a variable name]
> 
> > It seems that Python could have mentioned that to the user.
> 
> True, though it does say this:
> 
>   File "<stdin>", line 2
>     in = open("test.txt", "r")
>      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Could be better, but easily could've been far worse..

I used Perl (and still do) before Python and I think that the Perl
interpreter gives exceptionally informative error messages. Of course, 
with Perl's syntax, that may be a necessity ;->

-- 
-chad




