[Python-Dev] elimination of scope bleeding ofiteration variables

[Aahz]

On Tue, May 02, 2006, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 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.

My sentiments precisely.  Unless someone can come up with a good reason
for changing the current semantics, I'm -1.

Side note: if people do want to continue discussing this, I think it
should go to python-3000.  There is absolutely no reason to break
currently-running code that happens to use this pattern.
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