From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:17:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note about "as" not being a keyword, though it has special meaning
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5270
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a23b5739bb8edcb3d7a124ba258fd90b73206d31;p=python

Add a note about "as" not being a keyword, though it has special meaning
when used as part of the import statement.

Note that both "as" and "None" becoming keywords in the future.

Closes SF bug #553262.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
index 726aa212bb..e9fab58fd0 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
@@ -272,6 +272,13 @@ def       finally   in        print
 
 % When adding keywords, use reswords.py for reformatting
 
+Note that although the identifier \code{as} can be used as part of the
+syntax of \keyword{import} statements, it is not currently a reserved
+word.
+
+In some future version of Python, the identifiers \code{as} and
+\code{None} will both become keywords.
+
 
 \subsection{Reserved classes of identifiers\label{id-classes}}