Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> writes:
> (Python does not have anything that one might consider a true constant
> -- other than the language defined singletons: None, and maybe by now
> True and False).
Python now deals with those by making the names keywords::
>>> True = object()
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword
>>> False = object()
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword
>>> None = object()
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to keyword
which seems to rather avoid the question of whether they are “constants”
as would be understood by newcomers experienced with that term in other
languages.
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