On 03/02/2018 02:47 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 2 March 2018 at 16:39, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 03/01/2018 09:08 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Adding statement local variables into that mix *without* some form of syntactic marker would mean taking an already
complicated system, and making it even harder to reason about correctly (especially if statement locals interact
with nested scopes differently from the way other locals in the same scope do).

Seems like it would far easier and (IMHO) more useful to scale the proposal back from a statement scope to simple
expression assignment, and the variable is whatever scope it would have been if assigned to outside the expression
(default being local, but non-local or global if already declared as such).

Because that would put us back in the exact same problematic situation we had when "[x*x for x in sequence]" leaked the
iteration variable (only worse): no function locals would be safe, since arbitrary expressions could clobber them, not
just name binding operations (assignment, import statements, for loops, with statements, exception handlers, class and
function definitions).

Ah, right.  Since the PEP primarily covers comprehensions, but then went on to discuss multi-line statements, I had forgotten the comprehension part.  The answer is easy:  assignment expressions in comprehensions stay inside comprehensions, just like other inner comprehension variables already do (function sub-scope, after all).  Thank you for pointing that out.