On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> My thoughts would be: >> 1. It's hard to avoid shadowing anything unless you know the entire >> language and never forget things. > > Define the "entire language". Does that include the names of all the > plethora of exceptions? How about the standard library?
The shadowing issue applies to the standard library as well as the builtins, so yes; to avoid shadowing *anything*, you would have to know the entire language. I posit that this is a practical impossibility, and that unexpected shadowing will always be possible (and won't always be prevented by syntax highlighting). Some day you'll discover that you can't use module X because you have a function called X, and you'll have to rename. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list