March 15, 2009
12:04 a.m.
With the way nested namespaces are set up, allowing embedded assignments would just be a recipe for long term confusion even if it did occasionally make some algorithms fractionally easier to write down.
Cheers, Nick.
Agreed. I wont be taking this argument any further. Could we close issue http://bugs.python.org/issue1714448? Cheers, Jervis