On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:56 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:35:53PM -0700, João Matos wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I don't see why creating a clear command would interfere with > dict.clear() > > which is a function/method. > > For the same reason that you can't have a method called foo.while or > foo.if or foo.raise. If clear is a "command" (a statement) it would need > to be a keyword, like while, if and raise. > > > This is since in Python there are no contextual keywords (like "override" and "final" in C++). I remember encountering error in a Django project where accessing u.pass was a syntax error, but there *was* a field "pass" in u and they had to resort to getattr(u, "pass"). What is the reasoning behind that decision? Elazar
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