Larry Bates wrote: > Because Python allows you to replace built-in methods with > your own. Later you will find that this can be extremely > powerful. You will stumble on this if you name a list 'list' > a string 'str', integer 'int', float 'float', dictionary > 'dict', ... (at least I did <grin>).
try is a reserved word. list, str, int, float, dict are not reserved words. you can accidentally shadow built-in objects by using one of them for your own purposes (this may or may not matter), but it's not a syntax error. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
