[Python-3000] end scope of iteration variables after loop

[Guido van Rossum]

The substance of this discussion has already be answered by Amaury.

I'd also like to remind everyone that at this point we're trying to
get 3.0 (*and* 2.6!)  stable enough to release by September 3rd.
That's about 4.5 months away only! We should not be considering major
language changes at this point. If you have an idea for a
ground-breaking changes, write to python-ideas and we'll consider it
for 3.1 or 4.0.

--Guido

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Nicholas T <ntung at ntung.com> wrote:
> hello all,
>
>    A few times in practice I have been tripped up by how Python keeps
> variables in scope after a loop--and it wasn't immediately obvious what the
> problem was. I think it is one of the ugliest and non-intuitive features,
> and hope some others agree that it should be changed in py3k.
>
> >>> for a in range(11): pass
> ...
> >>> print(a)
> 10
>
> Thanks,
> Nicholas
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