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Thu Jul 28 05:43:12 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112601.html

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:53, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
>  Sure, but I'm still leery of two functions with the same name doing acting
>> slightly differently.
>>
>
>
> and then in a later post:
>
>
>  As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not good practice to have two functions
>> with
>> the same name doing something slightly different, in different modules in
>> the code-base.
>>
>
> artist.draw() and gunslinger.draw() do not necessarily need to do the same
> thing,
>

Of course, but why do you ignore the "slightly different". Had
support.rmtree been something completely different from shutil.rmtree, I
wouldn't have a problem with it. But it just calls rmtree and ignores some
errors. This is the part I have the problem with.

Eli
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