Seebs wrote:
On 2011-08-15, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Gerrat Rickert wrote:
What sayest the Python community about having an explicit warning
against such un-pythonic behaviour (re-assigning builtin names)?
What makes you think this behavior is unpythonic? Python is not about
hand-holding.
It seems like something which is sufficiently likely to be a mistake might
deserve a warning -- especially since, so far as I can tell, there's never
going to be a program which can't easily be written to avoid the problematic
behavior.
"sufficiently likely" depends entirely on who is doing the coding. I
use `open()` for opening my files, and so regularly use `file` as a
name. It can also be very handy to mask a built-in when doing something
even more fun and entertaining and I, for one, have zero desire to have
Python start warning me about perfectly legitimate code.
Programmers need to learn whichever language they are choosing to code
in, and if extra help is needed beyond whatever is basic for that
language, find (or write! ;) the third-party tool to help out. There
are at least two linters for Python, and multiple IDEs that can help
with these, and other, problems. (I don't much care for IDEs, but I am
thinking of starting to use a linter, myself.)
~Ethan~
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