On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-06-10, Terry Jan Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> Another principle similar to 'Don't add extraneous code' is 'Don't >> rebind builtins'. > > OK, we've all done it by accident (especially when starting out), but > are there people that rebind builtins intentionally?
There are times when you don't care what you shadow, like using id for a database ID. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
