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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:16:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:15 am Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> It's actually masking, not reassigning. That may make it easier or
>> harder to resolve the issue.
>
> The usual term is "shadowing builtins", and it's a feature, not a bug :)

Sorry, shadowing. And yeah, that's why I said that "fixing" this
"issue" was the domain of linting scripts.

ChrisA