[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

[Steven Bethard]

On 11/1/06, Ka-Ping Yee <python at zesty.ca> wrote:
> I think a fairer survey example would be something like this:
>
>     n = 1
>     def f():
>         n = 2
>         def g():
>             global n = 99
>             return n
>         g()
>
>     f()
>     print n
>
> Which 'n' do you expect g() to change?

The only reason I didn't use that in the first place is that is seems
extremely unlikely in real code.  Who uses the same name for a
module-level binding and a function-local binding?

So yes, that's the corner case, but I contend that the corner case
will almost never come up.

Steve
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