Is it bad practice to use a built-in function name as an attribute or method identifier?

Question

I know to never use built-in function names as variable identifiers.

But are there any reasons not to use them as attribute or method identifiers?

For examp

Answer 1

I go back and forth on functions a lot when the input variables mimic python builtins. For example, the word bytes is a python builtin, but consider a utility library that parses bytes:

def parse_bytes(bytes):
    pass

I'd argue this has great readability, but pep8 linters don't like it. Instead I could do

def parse_bytes(bytearray):
    pass

def parse_bytes(somebytes):
    pass

Or use type hinting

def parse_bytes(b: bytes):
    pass

But all of these seem worse. Same thing happens if your variable name is input...

At the end of the day I usually go with somebytes