On 01/01/2014 08:04, Danny Yoo wrote:
My point was: `iter` the func exists in python (built-in with '-'), one may
use it at times. Giving an application var this name hides, which
accosionnally leads to bugs. I have been bitten by such a bug more than once
in the past, and once hard to find, asp. with the built-in func `range` (a
very tempting var name, isn't it?).
Just as a small side note: there are linters for Python that will warn
if we are trying to redefine a built-in. Pylint, for example, has
warning W0622 "Redefining built-in" to catch this class of gotchas.
http://www.pylint.org/
As I pointed out on 18/12/2013 and Walter Prins followed up on, you can
use pylint in Eclipse/Pydev as you type, must have saved me eons. I'd
assume other IDEs have similar mechanisms.
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what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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