From: trashcan at david-steuber.com (David Steuber)
Date: 22 Apr 1999 21:41:52 -0400
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..

This is what threw me.  I got the syntax error.  I had no clue what
was wrong with the syntax though.  I have gotten so used to using in
for the input file and out for the output file in other languages.

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