Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> In the second case, the name of the argument *is* 'object'. Which is not
> the case for the builtin len (which, fwiw, has type
> 'builtin_function_or_method', not 'function', so inspect.getargspec
> couldn't tell me more).
>
><ot>
> While we're at it, you should avoid using builtin's names for
> identifiers - here, using 'object' as the arg name shadows the builtin
> 'object' class).
></ot>
I think you are being a little bit unfair here: help(len) says:
len(...)
len(object) -> integer
Return the number of items of a sequence or mapping.
which implies that the argument to len has the name 'object' (although in
fact it doesn't have a name). The OP was simply asking about the difference
in calling conventions, not proposing to write code using 'object' as the
argument name.
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