On 8/20/05, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2005 02:22, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On 8/17/05, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you _really_ want to call a local variable 'id' you can (but > > > shouldn't). > > > > Disagreed. The built-in namespace is searched last for a reason -- the > > design is such that if you don't care for a particular built-in you > > don't need to know about it. > > I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Are you saying you _can't_ call > a variable 'id', or that it's OK to do this?
That it's OK. > > > You also can't/shouldn't call a variable 'class', 'def', or 'len' -- but > > > I don't see any movement to allow these... > > > > Please don't propagate the confusion between reserved keywords and > > built-in names! > > It's not a matter of 'confusion', more that there are some names you can't > or shouldn't use in Python. When coding twisted, often the most obvious > 'short' name for a Deferred is 'def', but of course that doesn't work. My point is that there are two reasons for not using such a name. With 'def', you *can't*. With 'len', you *could* (but it would be unwise). With 'id', IMO it's okay. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
