Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
This is not a bug. while is a keyword, it is part of Python's syntax, and you
are not permitted to use keywords as variable names. This is not an accident,
but a deliberate decision.
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nosy: +steven.daprano
resolution: - not a bug
status: open -
New submission from john kaiser:
found error when naming variables with basic functions
how to replicate
while=123 #while should be treated as variable name
while True: #this should be treated as a function
print while #this should be as a variable name
result:
File C:\Users\_you
Ned Deily added the comment:
(... and is documented in The Python 3 and 2 Language Reference manuals:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords and
https://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords)
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nosy: +ned.deily
Changes by Zachary Ware zachary.w...@gmail.com:
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stage: - resolved
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