Re: [Python-ideas] Interrogate alternate namespace keyword and concept

Prozacgod wrote:

After this discussion I'm wondering why it ever ended up in any language to begin with?

Pascal has it because it doesn't have any general way of binding a local name to some nested part of a data structure. You can always do this in Python, and also in C using the & operator, so those languages don't need a Pascal-style with-statement. -- Greg