On 8/17/05, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 12:37, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > I'd like to see the builtin id() removed so that I can use it as a > > local variable name without clashing with the builtin name. I > > certainly use the id() function, but not as often as I have a local > > variable I'd like to name id. > > Same here. > > > The sys module seems like a natural > > place to put id(), since it is exposing something about the > > implementation of Python rather than something about the language; the > > language offers the is operator to check ids. > > +1 > -Barry
+1 -Brett _______________________________________________ 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