Learn just a little Awk (2010)

Re:Learn just a little Awk (2010) by fyi1183 on Saturday June 16, 2018 @02:47AM (#17326253)

That's a nice story, but True and False are keywords in python. Such assignment attempts are a syntax error.

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Re:Learn just a little Awk (2010) by haldean on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:02AM (#17326291)

This was not true in Python 2, and redefining True to False used to be a jokey way to break the interpreter in a bunch of fun ways.

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Re:Learn just a little Awk (2010) by jwilk on Saturday June 16, 2018 @06:03AM (#17326801)

In fact, there's still lots of code in the wild that assigns to True/False, presumably for compatibility with very old Python versions:

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