On Friday 19 August 2005 02:22, Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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.
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Are you saying you _can't_ call a variable 'id', or that it's OK to do this? > > 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! It's not a matter of 'confusion', more that there are some names you can't or shouldn't use in Python. When coding twisted, often the most obvious 'short' name for a Deferred is 'def', but of course that doesn't work. Anthony _______________________________________________ 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
