/** * @name Builtin shadowed by local variable * @description Defining a local variable with the same name as a built-in object * makes the built-in object unusable within the current scope and makes the code * more difficult to read. * @kind problem * @tags maintainability * readability * @problem.severity recommendation * @sub-severity low * @precision medium * @id py/local-shadows-builtin */ import python import Shadowing import semmle.python.types.Builtins predicate allow_list(string name) { name in [ /* These are rarely used and thus unlikely to be confusing */ "iter", "next", "input", "file", "apply", "slice", "buffer", "coerce", "intern", "exit", "quit", "license", /* These are short and/or hard to avoid */ "dir", "id", "max", "min", "sum", "cmp", "chr", "ord", "bytes", "_", ] } predicate shadows(Name d, string name, Function scope, int line) { exists(LocalVariable l | d.defines(l) and l.getId() = name and exists(Builtin::builtin(l.getId())) ) and d.getScope() = scope and d.getLocation().getStartLine() = line and not allow_list(name) and not optimizing_parameter(d) } predicate first_shadowing_definition(Name d, string name) { exists(int first, Scope scope | shadows(d, name, scope, first) and first = min(int line | shadows(_, name, scope, line)) ) } from Name d, string name where first_shadowing_definition(d, name) select d, "Local variable " + name + " shadows a builtin variable."