I understand that if you reassign a built-in name to your own variable, such as:
str = 'hello' then you lose the use of the built-in (in this case str()), but is this also the case in terms of imported names? For example: import MySQLdb db = connect(blah blooh blee) cursor = db.cursor() Now, in the above, did I reassign the value of the cursor method, or is this different? Actually, now that I think about it, that's not exactly the same because cursor is a method of a connection object, not simply a function. So I suppose my real question is, does the 'shadowing' of built-in names also happen when you import other names, whether they are functions, methods or whatever else they could be? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
