On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> type=lst[0]["type"].lower() > > Tangent: Don't call it "type"; you're shadowing the built-in class of > the same name.
By "shadowing" you mean that the global variable still exists, right? I'm creating a local variable with the same name? That's how I'm interpreting the results of changing the variable name. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list