> I think Python needs a dedicated "pragma" syntax; we already have two
> pragma syntaxes ("from __future__ import" and "# coding"), and I think a
> syntax designed for expressing pragmas would be much clearer than using
> existing language features in weird ways to express pragmas. But that's
> a debate for another day.
See the (rejected) PEP 244.
> Today's topic is much smaller in scope: can I get support for making
> "pragma" a reserved keyword in Python? Guido himself suggested doing
> that back in August of 2000 during a previous pragma-y discussion:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-August/008840.html
>
> I'm not proposing that the keyword do anything, just that "pragma" be
> reserved for future expansion, and therefore be illegal for use as an
> identifier. For now any use of it would be an error.
>
> If there's some chance it would be accepted, I would happily make the patch.
I don't think there is. Making it a keyword now means essentially to
agree that the feature will be added later, so opponents of the feature
will oppose the first step.
Regards,
Martin
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