> > I'm not sure how much resistance there would be in the community to > > disallowing reassignment of builtin names though. I don't think > > I've ever reassigned a builtin name so I think it would be worth it. > > I'm not sure quite what you mean here, but I had plenty of variables > called `file' pre-2.2 (and probably still do). Several standard library modules export a function named 'open' as part of their APIs. Arguments and variables named 'dir', 'str' or 'type' are common. And so on. Built-ins will always be the last namespace to be searched. The goal here is to move this search from run time to compile time. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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