[Python-Dev] elimination of scope bleeding ofiteration variables

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 2 13:28:49 CEST 2006


Greg Ewing wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>> and am +0 on the double use below:
>>
>>     for x in y:
>>         for x in z:
> 
> Can anyone think of a plausible use case for that?

This really seems more like the domain of pychecker/pylint rather than the 
compiler. The code may be a bad idea, but I don't see any reason to make it a 
syntax error.

Cheers,
Nick.

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