[Python-ideas] binding vs rebinding

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 17:12, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

> How would you write code like:
>
> my_result = []
> for item in items:
>    a = <some intermediate result computed from item>
>    ...
>    my_result.append(<something computed from a>)
>
> where a is bound for the first time on the first iteration
> of the loop, and rebound on all subsequent iterations?

It would be bound locally to the body of the loop.

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