[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Talin wrote:

> One thing I don't understand in this discussion of re-purposing the 
> 'global' keyword is how you handle the case of an inner function that 
> *creates* a global.
> 
> Right now, you can create a global variable from within a scope, even if 
> that variable hasn't been declared yet:
> 
>     def foo():
>        global x
>        x = 1
> 
>     foo()
>     print x
> 
> However, if 'global' is simply a synonym for 'nonlocal', then how does 
> it know *which* scope to create the variable in?

since what's a free variable and not is determined by static analysis, 
and free variables are "owned" by the innermost scope they're used in, 
I'm not sure why you even asking that question.

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