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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:53:26 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> In Python 2.x, 'print' is actually a keyword. It has its own special
> syntax (eg printing to something other than stdout), and absolutely
> cannot be overridden:

Except that you can:

from __future__ import print_function

Just to make things complicated :-)



-- 
Steven