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On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I'd go even a step further. I think IDLE should not only warn, but comple=
tely prevent saving a file which shadows a stdlib module, which will effect=
ively render Python unusable. I remember from a few weeks back, a teacher w=
ith the same problem posted this on the mailinglist. Eventually she had a t=
echnician coming in to reinstall Windows, just to fix this problem ;-) What=
 an overkill...
>

Trouble is, that applies only if Idle was the thing that saved it
under that name and in that location. And that still only prevents
access to one module (imagine, for instance, shadowing wave.py - how
many programs will really break?). Not sure it should *prevent*
anything like that. A warning, sure, but not an absolute error.

ChrisA