Re: Help with syntax warnings

Robert Kern wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Not sure... what's a "syntax warning"? 

In [1]: SyntaxWarning?
Type:           classobj
String Form:    exceptions.SyntaxWarning
Namespace:      Python builtin
Docstring:
    Base class for warnings about dubious syntax.

Wow... Python detects "dubious syntax"? And here I thought programming was rather black and white, it's right or it's wrong.

(He notes examples such as assigning to None and "unqualified exec is not allowed in function" etc.)

I guess I've never accidentally hit one of those. Seems like, if I had, I'd probably want to fix the problem rather than hide it, as with most warnings from C compilers.

-Peter
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