On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:23:58 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > First of all, list is a reserved word. Don't use it as a variable name. > > Unless you mean to. Shadowing built-ins is only a bad thing when you do it > by accident.
I suppose but I am having a hard time trying to think of some good reason to replace a builtin function that creates a list with a list object. >>> list = list((1,2,3)) >>> list((1,2,3)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'list' object is not callable -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
