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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:42:56 +1000
Subject: Re: strang thing:
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The best solution is to avoid using the name "open", instead call it "open_"
> (underscore at the end is the usual convention to avoid shadowing
> built-ins). Or "open_value" or any other appropriate name.
>

This is why every good programmer keeps a thesaurus handy. I just now
had a "concept collision" on the word 'cancel', and did a quick search
to come up with 'annul' as an alternative. Although in this case I
didn't search my thesaurus, I actually looked for Magic: The Gathering
cards... yeah, I'm a nerd, aren't you? :)

There's lots of synonyms for open, and it's entirely possible that one
will work. Otherwise, Steven's other solution works just fine too, and
you can go humorous with that too:

sesame = open
open = "something"
file = sesame("filename", "r")

ChrisA