On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:15 am Chris Angelico wrote: > >> It's actually masking, not reassigning. That may make it easier or >> harder to resolve the issue. > > The usual term is "shadowing builtins", and it's a feature, not a bug :)
Sorry, shadowing. And yeah, that's why I said that "fixing" this "issue" was the domain of linting scripts. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list