[Python-Dev] Deprecating builtin id (and moving it to sys())

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> Removing it entirely is gratuitous breakage, for a not very high payoff. If
> you _really_ want to call a local variable 'id' you can (but shouldn't). 
> You also can't/shouldn't call a variable 'class', 'def', or 'len' -- but I
> don't see any movement to allow these...

This is getting off-topic, but... In C#, you can: you write @class,
@void, @return. Apparently, this is so that you can access arbitrary
COM objects (which may happen to use C# keywords as method names). Of
course, we would put an underscore after the name in that case.

Regards,
Martin