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Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

Philip Semanchuk philip at semanchuk.com
Tue Aug 16 22:51:01 EDT 2011 
On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 8/16/2011 8:18 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> 
>> Hi Terry,
>> To generalize from your example, are you saying that there's a mild admonition
> > against shadowing builtins with unrelated variable names in standard lib code?
> 
> I would expect that there might be. I would have to check PEP8.


I was curious, so I checked. I didn't see anything specifically referring to builtins. This is as close as it gets:

"If a function argument's name clashes with a reserved keyword, it is generally better to append a single trailing underscore rather than use an abbreviation or spelling corruption.  Thus "print_" is better than "prnt".  (Perhaps better is to avoid such clashes by using a synonym.)"


bye
Philip
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