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Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers

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rusi wrote:

> On Jun 11, 12:09 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>> Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
>> > Many long-time posters have advised "Don't rebind built-in names*.
>>
>> I'm in that camp, but I think this old post by Guido van Rossum is worth
>> reading to put the matter into perspective:
> 
> Not sure what you are saying Peter… If it is this (taken without
> context):
> 
>> (Not that it isn't a good idea to avoid obvious clashes --
>> 'str' for string variables and 'type' for type variables being the
>> most obvious stumbling blocks.)
> 
> then I guess we are saying the same thing??
> 
> If however we consider the context of that message:
> First there was only open, then there came file, and file was
> considered better than open, now again file seems to have disappeared
> from python3… and this message is written in the context of making the
> 'kosherness' of one python generation become the *different*
> kosherness of the next…
> 
> then what the message of the Guido-quote is, is not clear (at least to
> me).

As I understand it we should be a bit more relaxed about the matter of 
shading builtins with local variables than we usually are ;)

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Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-11 09:09 +0200
  Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-11 04:12 -0700
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-11 14:06 +0200
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-11 13:34 +0000
      Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-11 08:43 -0700
        Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-11 17:29 +0100

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