Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:
Michael Hudson wrote:
Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:
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,
What I mean by reassigning builtins is:
import __builtin__ __builtin__.int = something
Ah. I think Guido dislikes this one (as in, would like to see this practice banned), not sure about the community :-)
but I had plenty of variables called `file' pre-2.2 (and probably still do).
That's fine and there will be no warning.
Goody. Cheers, M. -- [3] Modem speeds being what they are, large .avi files were generally downloaded to the shell server instead[4]. [4] Where they were usually found by the technical staff, and burned to CD. -- Carlfish, asr