[Python-Dev] new draft of PEP 227

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "MAL" == M -A Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

  MAL> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
  >>
  >> I've got a new draft of PEP 227.  The terminology and wording are
  >> more convoluted than they need to be.  I'll do at least one
  >> revision just to say things more clearly, but I'd appreciate
  >> comments on the proposed spec if you can read the current draft.

  MAL> The PEP doesn't mention the problems I pointed out about
  MAL> breaking the lookup schemes w/r to symbols in methods, classes
  MAL> and globals.

I believe it does.  There was some discussion on python-dev and
with others in private email about how classes should be handled.

The relevant section of the specification is:

    If a name is used within a code block, but it is not bound there
    and is not declared global, the use is treated as a reference to
    the nearest enclosing function region.  (Note: If a region is
    contained within a class definition, the name bindings that occur
    in the class block are not visible to enclosed functions.)

  MAL> Please add a comment about this to the PEP + maybe the example
  MAL> I gave in one the posts to python-dev about it. I consider the
  MAL> problem serious enough to limit the nested scoping to lambda
  MAL> functions (or functions in general) only if that's possible.

If there was some other concern you had, then I don't know what it
was.  I recall that you had a longish example that raised a NameError
immediately :-).

Jeremy