whats wrong in this code

Question

class myfunc(list):
pass

When I execute the above code on repl I get :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: list() takes at most 1 argument (3 given)

Answer 1

Try avoiding naming variables and method arguments with already meaningful names like restricted keywords or datatypes.

list() is a built-in datatype, that confuses Python interpreter.

Answer 2

Please link your code from the playground.

Answer 3

the 2 lines you provided don't throw that error on my ide.. need to see the part of your code where you call this.

Answer 4

thank you everyone..!!

I was confused as the 2 lines of code execute fine on an online browser repl (https://repl.it/languages/python3)

but on python3.5 installed on my system - it errors out.

So wanted to know why it errors out on my system.