[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

[Michael Hudson]

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, but I had plenty of variables
called `file' pre-2.2 (and probably still do).

Cheers,
M.

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