On 2011-08-15, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Gerrat Rickert wrote: >> What sayest the Python community about having an explicit warning >> against such un-pythonic behaviour (re-assigning builtin names)?
> What makes you think this behavior is unpythonic? Python is not about > hand-holding. It seems like something which is sufficiently likely to be a mistake might deserve a warning -- especially since, so far as I can tell, there's never going to be a program which can't easily be written to avoid the problematic behavior. -s -- Copyright 2011, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
