On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 10/17/2013 01:57 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >> >> Read and listen more. Write and say less. > > > Mark Janssen has no interest in learning. From a thread long-ago: > > Mark Janssen wrote: >> >> Ethan Furman wrote: >>> >>> Mark Janssen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Really? >>>> >>>> --> int="five" >>>> --> [int(i) for i in ["1","2","3"]] >>>> >>>> TypeError: str is not callable >>>> >>>> Now how are you going to get the original int type back? >>>
Thank you for bringing this back up. Was it you who suggested that built-in are re-assignable? Because this is a bad idea for the reasons I just showed. My error in that example was going into arcane points that I should have cross-checked in the Python language definition (that built-ins were or were *not* assignable), then I wouldn't have had to have made my (otherwise valid) point, that there is no magical "stack" which will remember your language re-assignment so that you can get it back, but then the example should have never been pushed into existence in the first place. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
