"Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 20:33:31 EDT 2013
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> Magic. :-)
>
>>>> int = "five"
>>>> int("a")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>>> from __builtin__ import int as _int
>>>> _int("5")
> 5
>
> Not sure of the magic necessary in Python 3. This is definitely
> something you don't want to make a habit of...
Same thing works but with a different name:
from builtins import int as _int
ChrisA
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