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Title: async and await should be keywords in 3.7
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: Interpreter Core Versions: Python 3.7
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: gvanrossum Nosy List: JelleZijlstra, giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, lukasz.langa, miss-islington, quentel, rhettinger, vstinner, yselivanov
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2017-05-19 21:27 by JelleZijlstra, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Pull Requests
URL Status Linked Edit
PR 1669 merged JelleZijlstra, 2017-05-19 21:29
PR 6143 merged JelleZijlstra, 2018-03-18 16:35
PR 6145 merged miss-islington, 2018-03-18 16:54
Messages (11)
msg293976 - (view) Author: Jelle Zijlstra (JelleZijlstra) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-05-19 21:27
According to PEP 492, async and await should be full keywords in Python 3.7, but this hasn't been implemented yet. I have a patch ready that I'll submit as a PR soon.
msg293994 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-05-20 03:10
+1 These words are here to stay.   

That said, Guido needs to explicitly sign-off on any new language keywords.
msg293997 - (view) Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-05-20 04:18
Yes, I signed off on this when I approved that PEP.

On May 19, 2017 20:10, "Raymond Hettinger" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
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> +1 These words are here to stay.
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> That said, Guido needs to explicitly sign-off on any new language keywords.
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> nosy: +gvanrossum, rhettinger
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msg294003 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-05-20 05:40
It's time to remove Yury's hacks from the parser and get a sane syntax ;-) I agree to make async and await real keywords!
msg303793 - (view) Author: Yury Selivanov (yselivanov) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-10-06 03:24
New changeset ac317700ce7439e38a8b420218d9a5035bba92ed by Yury Selivanov (Jelle Zijlstra) in branch 'master':
bpo-30406: Make async and await proper keywords (#1669)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ac317700ce7439e38a8b420218d9a5035bba92ed
msg303794 - (view) Author: Yury Selivanov (yselivanov) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-10-06 03:28
Thanks a lot, Jelle!
msg305549 - (view) Author: Pierre Quentel (quentel) * Date: 2017-11-04 09:19
According to PEP 492, async and await should have been deprecated in 3.5 and 3.6, but I don't think they have been :

await = 1
def f(async=True):
    ...

don't raise any deprecation warning in 3.6.

Since version 3.7 will break existing code with a SyntaxError, could it be possible to have something explicit in the SyntaxError message for these new keywords, for instance

SyntaxError : 'async' is a keyword

I don't speack C so I can't provide a patch, sorry.
msg305634 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-11-06 11:20
> (...) don't raise any deprecation warning in 3.6.

python3 requires -Wd to display DeprecationWarning:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150149.html

Yury Selivanov: "We had PendingDeprecationWarning for async/await names in 3.5, and DeprecationWarning in 3.6."
msg314046 - (view) Author: Łukasz Langa (lukasz.langa) * (Python committer) Date: 2018-03-18 16:54
New changeset f64aae46da292f71f6be750026cd052362e066bc by Łukasz Langa (Jelle Zijlstra) in branch 'master':
Revert "bpo-30406: Make async and await proper keywords (#1669)" (GH-6143)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f64aae46da292f71f6be750026cd052362e066bc
msg314051 - (view) Author: miss-islington (miss-islington) Date: 2018-03-18 19:15
New changeset a90df5085b51e8bb9de1c04c408bbef42ce6cbc3 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
Revert "bpo-30406: Make async and await proper keywords (GH-1669)" (GH-6143)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a90df5085b51e8bb9de1c04c408bbef42ce6cbc3
msg336783 - (view) Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) * (Python committer) Date: 2019-02-27 23:41
Sadly if I get my way this will all be reverted -- see https://bugs.python.org/issue35975.  I'm working on a PR.
History
Date User Action Args
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resolution: fixed
stage: resolved
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