A mistake which almost went me mad

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 3 March 2016 at 11:48, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2016-03-03 10:43, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
>> The number of times I've had to correct a student for naming their
>> script "turtle.py".
>>
>> And the number of times I've caught myself doing it...
>
> I'm surprised at the number of times I find myself creating an
> "email.py" DESPITE KNOWING BETTER EVERY SINGLE TIME.

This mistake is too easy to make and should be fixed in the language
somehow. There's no way that a novice user can know which module names
are implicitly "reserved" by being used somewhere in the stdlib or the
collection of 3rd party modules that they may happen to have
installed.

--
Oscar