[Python-Dev] Scoping (corner cases)

[Samuele Pedroni]

Hi.

Tim Peters wrote:

> [Guido]
> 
>> Class scopes don't work like function scopes -- they use
>> LOAD_NAME and STORE_NAME.
> 
> 
> [Jeremy]
> 
>> Class scopes are also different because a block's free variables are
>> not resolved in enclosing class scopes.  We'll need to make sure the
>> doc says that class scopes and function scopes are different.
> 
> 
> Yup.  Since I'll never want to do stuff like this, I don't really care a heck
> of a lot what it does; but it should be documented!
> 
> What does Jython do with these?

The  jython codebase (prior and post to my nested scopes changes) does 
exactly the same as python, in fact something
equivalent to LOAD_NAME and SET_NAME is used in class scopes.

regards