Clashing cmp

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

tre17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
 > I have sometimes thought that it would be nice to have something like:
 > 
 > >>> import cmp as filecmp
 > 
 > or even:
 > 
 > >>> import cPickle as pickle

  Me too!

 > But that's probably just going to be way to open to abuse.  In the
 > first example at least it's obvious that something weird is happening.

  No; that's the right way to support renaming, in my (not in the least
bit humble) opinion.


  -Fred

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