> On 8/16/2011 7:29 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> On 8/16/2011 1:15 PM, Gerrat Rickert wrote:
>
> > I think that best practices would suggest that one shouldn't use
> > variable
> > names that shadow builtins (except in specific, special
> circumstances),
>
> On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
> A warning that is off by default won't help the people who need it,
> because
> they don't know enough to turn the warning on. A warning that is on by
> default will be helpful to the newbie programmer for the first week or
> so,
> and the
With surprising regularity, I see program postings (eg. on
StackOverflow) from inexperienced Python users accidentally
re-assigning built-in names.
For example, they'll innocently call some variable, "list", and assign a
list of items to it.
...and if they're _unlucky_ enough, their program m
