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Rename variable a to __a or similar? #102
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The virtualenvwrapper.sh shell assigns to a as a variable in 4 lines: 430 712 1111 1218 (as far as I can tell).
I use a as a variable myself. Given that it is a simple, short variable, it is likely that other people do too.
Would it be ok to rename all occurrences of a to __a or __aa or something similar to reduce the chance of interfering with user-defined variables?
Alternative strategy:
__saved_a=$a # at the beginning of the script
a=$__saved_a # restore the value at the end
If either of these sound reasonable, I'd be happy to send a PR.
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dhellmann commentedon Jul 5, 2024
If those are all in functions, we should be using
typesetto declare the variable as local to that function. It's definitely a bug in virtualenvwrapper if we are not.