What is the problem with shadowing names defined in outer scopes?

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I just switched to PyCharm and I am very happy about all the warnings and hints it provides me to improve my code. Except for this one which I don’t understand:

This inspection detects shadowing names defined in outer scopes.

I know it is bad practice to access variable from the outer scope, but what is the problem with shadowing the outer scope?

Here is one example, where PyCharm gives me the warning message:

data = [4, 5, 6]

def print_data(data): # <-- Warning: "Shadows 'data' from outer scope
    print data

print_data(data)

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