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Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

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Date Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:34:51 -0700
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Gerrat Rickert wrote:
> What sayest the Python community about having an explicit warning 
> against such un-pythonic behaviour (re-assigning builtin names)?

What makes you think this behavior is unpythonic?  Python is not about 
hand-holding.

~Ethan~

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Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-15 15:34 -0700
  Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-08-15 22:33 +0000
    Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-15 16:12 -0700

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