Can I use the variable name “type” as function argument in Python?

Question

Can I use type as a name for a python function argument?

def fun(name, type):
    ....

Answer 1

You can use _type for that. For example:

def foo(_type):
    pass

If you use type, you can't use type() in that function. For example:

>>> type('foo')

>>> type = 'bar'
>>> type('foo')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable