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

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Date	2013-06-10 17:18 -0700
Subject	Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers
From	Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.3096.1371040064.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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>         list = []
> Reading further, one sees that the function works with two lists, a list of
> file names, unfortunately called 'list',

That is very good advice in general:  never choose a variable name
that is a keyword.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

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Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 17:18 -0700
  Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-12 14:24 +0000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 12:40 -0700
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:30 +1000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 16:07 -0700
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 09:53 +1000
      Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-13 00:47 +0000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-06-12 19:06 -0500
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 17:26 -0700
      Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-13 01:23 +0000
        Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-06-13 11:09 +0100
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 10:28 +1000

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