None assigment

[Michael Hudson]

D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> writes:

> Interesting.  So normally "None" is a special keyword (that is a
> reference to an object) , but that doesn't prevent one from creating
> a local variable named "None" that shadows the keyword.

Not really.  It's a builtin.  Ever used a variable called list?

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  The "of course, while I have no problem with this at all, it's
  surely too much for a lesser being" flavor of argument always 
  rings hollow to me.                       -- Tim Peters, 29 Apr 1998