On 8/7/2015 12:17 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote: > Yes. And overall I think that > > sum = a + b > print(f'the sum is {sum}') > > is more pythonic (readability, explicitness etc) than this: > > print(f'the sum is {a + b}') except for your choice of 'sum' I'd agree. Otherwise shadowing builtins doesn't do any of these. Emile