Michael Hudson wrote:

> > that would turn exit and quit into reserved keywords.
>
> In what sense?  Not in the sense of "things in single quotes in
> Grammar"...

no, but in the sense of "names that can no longer be used in code"

    >>> def exit():
    ...      print "bye"

    >>> # what is it?
    >>> exit

    $ oops!

the whole nameerror thing is there to avoid problems if you create
your own exit variables/functions/classes/modules.

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