Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Aug 15 18:34:51 EDT 2011


Gerrat Rickert wrote:
> What sayest the Python community about having an explicit warning 
> against such un-pythonic behaviour (re-assigning builtin names)?

What makes you think this behavior is unpythonic?  Python is not about 
hand-holding.

~Ethan~



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