[Python-Dev] Python roadmap

[Neal Norwitz]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 07:33 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>    ...
> > It is sort of against the rules of the language -- the whole point of
> > scoping is that you should be able to define variables even if they
> > block a builtin (that you may never have heard of and don't need) from
> > view.
> >
> > But it would be a great feature of PyChecker (for all I know, it
> > already does this).
> 
> At least in 0.8.12, which I think is the current release, PyChecker
> doesn't diagnose the binding (in global or local scope) of built-in
> names with a warning, no.  But I think you're right that such a
> functionality would belong there.

Alex is correct on all counts. It is easy enough to add, so I'll
implement it.

Neal