Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2012-11-23 08:12 -0800
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Subject	Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`?
From	Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com>

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Hi, 

do you think it's bad style to override the built-in function `type`? I'm co-developing a GUI automation library called Automa (http://www.getautoma.com) and 'type' would be a very fitting name for a function that generates artificial key strokes. 

This post is motivated by an already lengthy discussion on this mailing list (http://bit.ly/10aOy4H), where we tried to find alternative names for `type`. Many were found, but none are quite as fitting as 'type'. 

For the sake of avoiding a discussion that is already being lead elsewhere please confine this thread to what you generally think about overriding `type`, and post suggestions for alternative names or solutions in the other thread.

Thank you very much!
Michael

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Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 08:12 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2012-11-23 08:39 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-23 11:47 -0500
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 09:08 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-23 13:35 -0500
    Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 10:41 -0800
      Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-11-24 09:30 +1100
        Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-24 14:32 -0800
          Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-11-25 09:47 +1100
          Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-25 04:06 +0000
            Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-11-25 17:33 +1100
        Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-24 14:32 -0800
    Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 10:41 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-24 23:02 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-29 03:46 -0800
  Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 09:54 -0800
    Re: Is it bad style to override the built-in function `type`? Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-12-03 02:57 -0800

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