On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:09:31 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > There's no harm in calling a local variable "id", if you don't use the > built-in id() inside that function. That's one of the reasons why functions > exist, so that the names you use inside a function are distinct from those > outside.
And thank goodness for that! I've been writing Python code since 1997 and version 1.5.<something>,¹ and I still do a double take when emacs colors all my ids that faint blue that means "builtin." I don't think I've ever used the builtin function id in a program. Ever. Not even once. Honestly, what is a valid use case? That said, I do have boatloads of parameters and objects locally named id because it's idiomatic (at least to me) and mnemonic (at least to me) and just as meaningful. ¹ No, not continuously. I have eaten and slept since then. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
