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[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happenLaura Creighton lac at openend.se
Thu Oct 29 14:46:31 EDT 2015
In a message of Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:27:59 +0000, Paul Moore writes:
>The idle issues seem to me to demonstrate that shadowing the stdlib is
>a bad idea. Of course, consenting adults, and if you override you're
>responsible for correctly replacing the functionality, and all that,
>but honestly, I don't think it needs to be *easy* to shadow the stdlib
>- there's nothing wrong with it being an "advanced" technique that
>people have to understand in order to use.

I am actually sick of the 'consenting adults' argument.
I am dealing with '11 year old children trying to write their
first, third and tenth python programs'.  For the life of me
I cannot see how convenience for the sort of person who has a 
legitimate reason to shadow the syslib should get a higher priority
over these mites who are doing their damndest to write python
despite natural language barriers  and the fact that their peers
and parents think they are nuts to want to do so.

(a grumpy comment from a teacher at a Swedish 'coding for
kids' club.  Disregard if too grumpy.)

Laura
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