[Python-ideas] Tweaking closures and lexical scoping to include the function being defined

[Steven D'Aprano]

Paul Moore wrote:

> Equally to the point, if a function has
> 
>     own x = 1
>     x = 1
> 
> it is *not* valid to remove the second line, as it runs at a different
> time (runtime rather than define time). That is very weird.


def f(x=1):
     x = 1


has the same behaviour. I don't think either case is weird.



> Between these points and Arnaud Delobelle's point that code inside a
> function should do nothing when the def itself is executed, I'm
> getting more convinced that objects with persistent local scope should
> be introduced *outside* the function body.

I don't think having code inside a function execute is any worse than 
having code inside a class execute.

class K:
     print("this is executed at definition time")


def f(x=print("this is also executed at definition time")):
     own y=print("and so is this")


To say nothing of decorators.




-- 
Steven