On 11/20/12 19:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > *Accidental* shadowing of names is a bad thing, because you get > unexpected bugs. *Deliberate* shadowing is not. We're all > consenting adults here, if somebody calls "from module import > type", and shadows the builtin type, that's their right to shoot > themselves in the foot. Or not, as the case may be.
Python even allows you to unshoot your foot by doing from module import type as unshadowed_type So others can have your poorly-named cake and eat it too. Or some such confuddling of aphorisms. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
