[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:08:51 +0100

Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:

I'm not sure how much resistance there would be in the community to disallowing reassignment of builtin names though. I don't think I've ever reassigned a builtin name so I think it would be worth it.

I'm not sure quite what you mean here, but I had plenty of variables called `file' pre-2.2 (and probably still do).

Cheers, M.

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