Adam Olsen writes: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
> > I would like to see the clear division between the language (ie, > > the syntax) and the built-in functionality maintained. I'm not > > sure I like the proposed title for that reason. > > Such a division would make it unnecessarily hard to find documentation > on True, False, None, etc. They've become keywords for pragmatic > purposes (to prevent accidental modification), not because we think > they ideally should be syntax instead of builtins. This is Python; of course practicality beats purity. I have no problem with putting some keywords in the "built-in functionality" section, or even (boggle) duplicate them across the two sections. I too was put off by the separation of syntax from built-in functionality when I first started using the documentation, but later I came to appreciate it. I'm a relatively casual user of Python, and having a spare "syntax" section has made it much easier to learn new syntax such as comprehensions and generators. I suspect it will make it a lot easier to learn the differences between Python 2 and Python 3, too. I do not want to lose that. I don't pretend to be speaking for anyone else, but I'd be surprised if I were unique.<wink> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
