My stupid newbie mistake

[Fredrik Lundh]

Larry Bates wrote:

> Because Python allows you to replace built-in methods with
> your own.  Later you will find that this can be extremely
> powerful.  You will stumble on this if you name a list 'list'
> a string 'str', integer 'int', float 'float', dictionary
> 'dict', ... (at least I did <grin>).

try is a reserved word.

list, str, int, float, dict are not reserved words.  you can accidentally
shadow built-in objects by using one of them for your own purposes
(this may or may not matter), but it's not a syntax error.

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