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From: faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:58:38 +0200
Subject: New python user seeks comments
References: <m3wvz61tkp.fsf@solo.david-steuber.com> <371DA955.9F13B144@pop.vet.uu.nl> <x1jlnflztfl.fsf@unhinged.engr.sgi.com>
Message-ID: <371E2DEE.C2BD5A58@pop.vet.uu.nl>
X-UID: 1215
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..