[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes

[Samuele Pedroni]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
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>>The names of naming statements are quite hard to get right, I fear.
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> My vote goes for 'outer'.
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> And if this gets accepted, remove 'global' in 3.0.
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In 3.0 we could remove 'global' even without 'outer',
and make module global scopes read-only, not rebindable
after the top-level code has run (i.e. more like function
body scopes). The only free-for-all namespaces would be
class and instance ones. I can think of some
gains from this.  <.3 wink>