On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > 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.
I was curious, so I checked. I didn't see anything specifically referring to builtins. This is as close as it gets: "If a function argument's name clashes with a reserved keyword, it is generally better to append a single trailing underscore rather than use an abbreviation or spelling corruption. Thus "print_" is better than "prnt". (Perhaps better is to avoid such clashes by using a synonym.)" bye Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
