Clashing cmp
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Sep 21 13:29:09 EDT 1999
Hi, people.
There is a builtin function named `cmp', but there is also an importable
module `cmp' in the standard library. After a mere `import cmp' (I prefer
to avoid `from cmp import SUCH-and-SUCH' if I may), I feel forced to write
`__builtins__.cmp' to access the builtin function.
This does not look very elegant to me. Would not it be better if such
elementary clashes were avoided, at least within the standard distribution?
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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