On 8/17/05, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you _really_ want to call a local variable 'id' you can (but shouldn't).
Disagreed. The built-in namespace is searched last for a reason -- the design is such that if you don't care for a particular built-in you don't need to know about it. > You also can't/shouldn't call a variable 'class', 'def', or 'len' -- but I > don't see any movement to allow these... Please don't propagate the confusion between reserved keywords and built-in names! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
