Re: Challenging argparse with keyword dest="class"

"Peter J. Holzer" <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:46:38 +0100

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On 2025-12-29 14:32:52 +0200, Schimon Jehudah via Python-list wrote:
> This is also so with "import".
> 
> VARIABLE.import

And "from" and many others.

Not all keywords, though. Newer keywords are "soft". They are only
recognized as keywords if they appear in a position where they actually
make sense.

So you can write something like:

#!/usr/bin/python3

match = 1
print(match)

match match:
    case 0:
        print("zero")
    case 1:
        print("one")
    case _:
        print("many")

(not that you should).

        hjp

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