July 3, 2006
8:01 p.m.
Josiah> As for a solution, I find the "global means 'not local'" Josiah> proposition is the least undesireable of the possibilities. It Josiah> suffers from a change in semantics and potential name masking Josiah> issues... Pychecker and PyLint both already identify cases where builtins are masked by locals or module globals (and may identify cases where locals mask module globals - I don't recall). I suspect both could be generalized in this regard without a huge effort. That's probably the best place for this sort of warning. Skip