list in ListModelMixin could overwrite the builtins list method of python and causes error

[ghostinthefingers]

list in ListModelMixin could overwrite the builtins list method of python and causes error, isn't it better to change the name of list here?

class SomeViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    def list(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return Response(
            {"message": "List function is not offered in this path"}, 
            status.HTTP_405_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED
        )

then wanna use the builtins list function of python in my code and I get an error, because I already overwrote it:

    def create(...):
        return list('123')

[auvipy]

@encode/django-rest-framework team, what is your thoughts?

[kevin-brown]

We're many years into shadowing this and it hasn't come up as a problem until now. You can pull list from the builtins namespace if you find that it's been shadowed.

[kevin-brown]

Which is a long way to say I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze here.

[carltongibson]

Also, list is a bound method so it's accessed as self.list not list, so there's no shadowing.