Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

[Seebs]

On 2011-08-16, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I think warnings should be reserved for language changes and such (like 
> DeprecationWarning, RuntimeWarning, and FutureWarning), not for possible 
> programmer mistakes.

I disagree, on the basis of the following:

The quality of C code I have to deal with has increased dramatically as
gcc's aggressive use of warnings has spread.

> Python can be improved -- I don't see 'hand-holding' as an improvement. 
>   IDEs and lints can do this.

-W ignore

-s
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