[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

[Jan Grant]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Georg Brandl wrote:

> > PS. If you're hunting for keywords to overload to drag variables into scope, 
> > "import" is also available, although would probably be very hard to make 
> > work.
> 
> How should that possibly work?

Without treading on the toes of the existing import syntax, god knows 
(which is what I meant by "very hard").

The docs claim import exists to "(2) define a name or names in the local 
namespace (of the scope where the import statement occurs)" but since 
outer variable names may shadow module names,

	def f():
	 import x

couldn't be used :-(



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