Of course, remember that there are benefits to this, as well. Redefining the built-ins can be useful in some interesting cases.
Klaus Neuner wrote: > Hello, > > Python has one feature that I really hate: There are certain special > names like 'file' and 'dict' with a predefined meaning. Yet, it is > allowed to redefine these special names as in > > dict = [1:'bla'] > > In order to avoid problems in the future, I tried to get the list of > all those names, but I could not find it. (The Python Reference Manual > only says that there is the type "Dictionary" in Python, but not that > 'dict' is a semi-reserved word.) Can you point me to such a list? > > Klaus -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list