diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Objects/unicodeobject.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 7e5f04f..60df11d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1627,6 +1627,8 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). Return true if the string is a valid identifier according to the language definition, section :ref:`identifiers`. + Use :func:`keyword.iskeyword` to test for reserved identifiers such as + :keyword:`def` and :keyword:`class`. .. method:: str.islower() diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c index 9f269a5..c21e80c 100644 --- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c +++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c @@ -11493,7 +11493,10 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(isidentifier__doc__, "S.isidentifier() -> bool\n\ \n\ Return True if S is a valid identifier according\n\ -to the language definition."); +to the language definition.\n\ +\n\ +Use keyword.iskeyword() to test for reserved identifiers\n\ +such as \"def\" and \"class\".\n"); static PyObject* unicode_isidentifier(PyObject *self) |