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Fri Jul 30 23:23:22 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102573.html

First appeared in docs for 2.6 (October 02, 2008).  Not sure if that is when it first because constrained this way.

http://docs.python.org/library/constants.html?highlight=__debug__#__debug__

-eric

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Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:06 PM
To: Barry Warsaw
Cc: Guido van Rossum; Python-Dev Dev
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Is it intentional that "sys.__debug__ = 1" isillegal in Python 2.7?

2010/7/30 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 01:42 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>Well it is a reserved name so those packages that were setting it
>>should have known that they were using undefined behavior that could
>>change at any time.
>
> Shouldn't it be described here then?
>
> http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#identifiers
>

Doesn't the section
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#reserved-classes-of-identifiers
make this clear enough ?

> -Barry
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