On 06/10/2013 06:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 2013-06-10, Terry Jan Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
Another principle similar to 'Don't add extraneous code' is 'Don't
rebind builtins'.
OK, we've all done it by accident (especially when starting out), but
are there people that rebind builtins intentionally?
There are times when you don't care what you shadow, like using id for
a database ID.
ChrisA
And times where you're deliberately replacing a built-in
try:
input = raw_input
except ....
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