Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: IDLE has suddenly become FAWLTY - so should I be hitting it with a big stick, or what? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:03:20 +1200 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <4eec9365-4103-4474-a47f-ea665b265b1e@googlegroups.com> <5a9b5715-382b-4a6b-be90-c535ad14740a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net eY+4gcl0V4NRonE4PBb8XAi7bHqNEXY9MkTJkUsdX6LSrxe8QV Cancel-Lock: sha1:pEbzsvGE5O33csb+QKmucXpNsYI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:77076 Twirlip2 wrote: > There is probably some lesson I should learn from this. The lesson is probably that you shouldn't put the code you're developing somewhere that's on the default import path. Although shadowing builtin module names is never a good idea, either! -- Greg