On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:53, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Eli Bendersky wrote: > > Sure, but I'm still leery of two functions with the same name doing acting >> slightly differently. >> > > > and then in a later post: > > > As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not good practice to have two functions >> with >> the same name doing something slightly different, in different modules in >> the code-base. >> > > artist.draw() and gunslinger.draw() do not necessarily need to do the same > thing, > Of course, but why do you ignore the "slightly different". Had support.rmtree been something completely different from shutil.rmtree, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But it just calls rmtree and ignores some errors. This is the part I have the problem with. Eli
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