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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:26:18 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 06/10/2013 06:54 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2013-06-10, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Another principle similar to 'Don't add extraneous code' is 'Don't
>>> rebind builtins'.
>>
>> OK, we've all done it by accident (especially when starting out), but
>> are there people that rebind builtins intentionally?
>
> There are times when you don't care what you shadow, like using id for
> a database ID.
>
> ChrisA
>

And times where you're deliberately replacing a built-in

try:
    input = raw_input
except ....



-- 
DaveA