Why no warnings when re-assigning builtin names?

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/16/2011 1:15 PM, Gerrat Rickert wrote:

> I think that best practices would suggest that one shouldn't use
> variable
> names that shadow builtins (except in specific, special circumstances),
> so I don't really think this would be an annoyance at all.  The number
> of
> *unwanted* warnings they'd get would be pretty close to zero.  OTOH, in
> response to a question I asked on StackOverflow, someone posted a large
> list of times where this isn't followed in the std lib, so there seems
> to be a precedent for just using the builtin names for anything
> one feels like at the time.

If you run across that again and email me the link, I will take a look 
and see if I think the issue should be raised on pydev. Of course, some 
modules *intentionally* define an open function, intended to be accessed 
as 'mod.open' and not as 'from mod import *; open'. Also, class/instance 
attributes can also reuse builtin names. But 'open = <True/False>' would 
be bad.


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Terry Jan Reedy