From: faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:58:38 +0200
Subject: New python user seeks comments
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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..




