Hi, On 03/08/2010 0.47, georg.brandl wrote:
Author: georg.brandl Date: Mon Aug 2 23:47:02 2010 New Revision: 83596Log: Merged revisions 83567 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://python...@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint ................ r83567 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:32:03 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 9 lines Merged revisions 83552 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://python...@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes. ........ ................ Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/ (props changed) python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/library/constants.rst Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/library/constants.rst ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/library/constants.rst (original) +++ python/branches/release26-maint/Doc/library/constants.rst Mon Aug 2 23:47:02 2010 @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ A small number of constants live in the built-in namespace. They are: - .. data:: False The false value of the :class:`bool` type. @@ -39,16 +38,23 @@ Special value used in conjunction with extended slicing syntax. - .. XXX Someone who understands extended slicing should fill in here. - .. data:: __debug__ This constant is true if Python was not started with an :option:`-O` option. - Assignments to :const:`__debug__` are illegal and raise a :exc:`SyntaxError`. See also the :keyword:`assert` statement. +.. note:: + + The names :data:`None` and :data:`__debug__` cannot be reassigned + (assignments to them, even as an attribute name, raise :exc:`SyntaxError`), + so they can be considered "true" constants. + + .. versionchanged:: 2.7 + Assignments to ``__debug__`` as an attribute became illegal.
this shouldn't be here.
+ + Constants added by the :mod:`site` module ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list python-check...@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins
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