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Michael Van Dusen
12,136 PointsDoes "Shadows" warning suggest this code is "Not Pythonic?"
I am writing the code for this lesson in Intellij and get a warning on new_item in the function:
def add_to_list(new_item):
that says 'Shadows name 'new_item' from outer scope." Is there a better way of writing this to avoid this warning?
1 Answer
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsThat warning means that at some point, add_to_list was defined twice, and they conflict with each other. If you rename one of them, that warning should go away