[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib.{True, False} (was Re: Assignment to None)

Mon Jun 16 22:27:40 CEST 2008

On 2008年06月15日 16:47, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Thomas Lee schrieb:
>> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>> Remember that it must still be possible to write (in 2.6)
>>>>>> True = 0
>>> assert not True
>>>> Ah of course. Looks like I should just avoid optimizations of 
>> Name("True") and Name("False") all together. That's a shame!
>> We can of course decide to make assignment to True and False
> illegal in 2.7 :)

Raising a run-time exception would be fine, but not a SyntaxError at
compile time - this would effectively make it impossible to keep
code compatible to Python 2.1.
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