On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Gerrat Rickert <grick...@coldstorage.com> wrote: > With surprising regularity, I see program postings (eg. on StackOverflow) > from inexperienced Python users accidentally re-assigning built-in names. > > For example, they’ll innocently call some variable, “list”, and assign a > list of items to it.
It's actually masking, not reassigning. That may make it easier or harder to resolve the issue. If you want a future directive that deals with it, I'd do it the other way - from __future__ import mask_builtin_warning or something - so the default remains as it currently is. But this may be a better job for a linting script. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
