[Zope-Perl] Calling a perl method called del()

[Alexandre Gattiker]

I have tried pyperl as a way to use existing perl modules in python
programs. Unfortunately, a method in my perl class is called del(),
which is a python reserved word. This is reproduced in the example
below. Replacing del() with another name works. Is there a way to
circumvent the problems without changing the perl module ?

bug.pm :

package bug;

sub new {
	my $ref = shift;
	my $class = ref($ref) || $ref;
	my $self = {};
	bless($self, $class);
	return $self;
}
sub del {
	print "del called\n";
}
1;


bug.py :

from perlmod import PerlClass

bug = PerlClass("bug")()
bug.del()


python bug.py
  File "bug.py", line 4
    bug.del()
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax



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