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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Besides the obvious flaws... is that parameter a list named list, shadowing the list() constructor?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It works as long as you don't call list() within that function.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Well duh. I wonder what happens if you shadow the list constructor and try to use it as a type hint...

def foo(list: list):
  def bar(thingies: list):
    pass