On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:01:22 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Gregory Ewing wrote: > > > Although shadowing builtin module names is never a good > > idea, either! > > /s/builtin/standard library/ > > Quick! Name all the standard library modules, stat! > > In Python 3.3, there are something like 410 modules in the standard library. > There's a reasonable chance that you've shadowed at least one but never> > noticed. Yet. > > I think it is a serious design flaw that the standard library and user code > co-exist in a single namespace.
Shades of Windows *.DLLs! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
