On 8/16/2011 8:18 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
Hi Terry,
To generalize from your example, are you saying that there's a mild admonition
> against shadowing builtins with unrelated variable names in standard
lib code?
I would expect that there might be. I would have to check PEP8.
Here's an example from Python 3.2.1's argparse.py, lines 466-473.
> "open" is shadowed on the second line.
# clean up separators for mutually exclusive groups
open = r'[\[(]'
close = r'[\])]'
text = _re.sub(r'(%s) ' % open, r'\1', text)
text = _re.sub(r' (%s)' % close, r'\1', text)
text = _re.sub(r'%s *%s' % (open, close), r'', text)
text = _re.sub(r'\(([^|]*)\)', r'\1', text)
text = text.strip()
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