> Even though you can use them as variables (and shadow the builtins), you > will still get warnings from "pychecker".
So? > The code will also be harder to > read: When you see "all" in the middle of some code, you don't know if > it's referring to the builtin or a variable. Yes you do. Builtins will be followed by a '('; the variables won't. (Obviously there can be exceptions, but in practice very, very few.) > Personally, I think Python has too many builtins already. It has fewer than most dynamic languages; and remember that I'm trading product(), any(), all() for reduce(), map() and filter(). There are others slated for disappearance, too. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com