[Python-Dev] nonlocal x = value

[Georg Brandl]

Am 23.12.2010 22:03, schrieb Laurens Van Houtven:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Yes and no -- there may not be an ambiguity to the parser, but still to
>> the human.  Except if you disallow the syntax in any case, requiring
>> people to write
>>
>> nonlocal x = (3, y)
>>
>> which is then again inconsistent with ordinary assignment statements.
>>
>> Georg
> 
> Right -- but (and hence the confusion) I was arguing for not mixing
> global/nonlocal with assignment at all, and instead having nonlocal
> and global only take one or more names. That would (obviously) remove
> any such ambiguity ;-)

Oh yes, I see -- not sure why I worded it like I did.  I just wanted to
reiterate the most obvious problematic point to people who hadn't followed
the earlier discussions about it.  Sorry.

Georg