"Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers

[Mark Janssen]

>>         list = []
>> Reading further, one sees that the function works with two lists, a list of
>> file names, unfortunately called 'list',
>
> That is very good advice in general:  never choose a variable name
> that is a keyword.

Btw,  shouldn't it be illegal anyway?  Most compilers don't let you do
use a keyword as a variable name....

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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington