* Paul Moore wrote: > If it *is* possible, I'd say it's worth implementing at least a > warning sooner rather than later - the practice seems questionable at > best, and any progress towards outlawing it would help in work on > optimising builtins.
</lurk> FWIW, this practice is very handy for unit tests. For example, I often shadow builtins like ``file`` for my tests with a mock placed from the outside into the global namespace. nd <lurk> -- "Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, dass ich auf ihn und seine beiden Gefährten nicht zu zählen brauchte" -- Karl May, "Winnetou III" Im Westen was neues: <http://pub.perlig.de/books.html#apache2> _______________________________________________ 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
