How to guard against bugs like this one?

[Steve Holden]

Don't give it another thought. I'd much rather you cared than you didn't ...

regards
 Steve

kj wrote:
> 
> Steve, I apologize for the snarkiness of my previous reply to you.
> After all, I started the thread by asking the forum for advice on
> how to avoid a certain kind of bugs, you were among those who gave
> me advice.  So nothing other than thanking you for it was in order.
> I just let myself get carried away by my annoyance with the Python
> import scheme.  I'm sorry about it.  Even though I don't think I
> can put to practice all of your advice, I can still learn a good
> deal from it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ~kj
> 
> 
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> 
>> kj wrote:
>>>> First, I don't shadow built in modules. Its really not very hard to avoid.
>>> ...*if* you happen to be clairvoyant.  I still don't see how the rest of us
>>> could have followed this fine principle in the case of numbers.py
>>> prior to Python 2.6.
>>>
>> Clearly the more you know about the standard library the less likely
>> this is to be a problem. Had you been migrqating from an earlier version
>> the breakage would have alerted you to look for some version-dependent
>> difference.
> 
> <snip>
> 


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