BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On Jun 7, 8:17 am, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ........ > A good habit for naming your scripts: If you have a script and you > want to name it text.py, or list.py or new.py or old.py or some common > name that might be found in the thousand and one other modules and > programs in your various installations, just use my_text.py or > my_list.py or neil_new.py or something to reduce the chances that > you'll be shadowing without knowing it. > > rick
using your advice we will start getting problems where my_new is shadowed so then we start having to recur and we'll have names like my_my_new.py my_my_list.py ...... my_my_my_new.py ..... I leave as an exercise the algorithm which chooses the appropriate version of new/list to use :) -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
