Steven D'Aprano 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. > Quite. And we should observe that "list" is not a reserved word in the sense of a keyword with a specific syntactic meaning, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to shadow it in the first place. It's just the name of one of Python's built-in types.
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