27 Mar
2018
27 Mar
'18
4:02 a.m.
[Guido]
... Not so fast. There's a perfectly reasonable alternative to sublocal scopes -- just let it assign to a local variable in the containing scope. That's the same as what Python does for for-loop variables.
That's certainly what I would _expect_ if I never read the docs, conditioned by experience with Python's `for` and embedded assignments in at least C and Icon. But I have to confess I already gave up trying to stay up-to-date with all of Python's _current_ scope rules. It's not what I want to think about. It's easier all around to try not to reuse names in clever ways to begin with.