[Python-ideas] Allow "assigning" to Ellipse to discard values.

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11 February 2015 at 08:44, Andrew Barnert
<abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> But does Python actually guarantee that a variable will be alive until the end of the scope even if never referenced?

Yes, due to the way namespace semantics are defined. Bound names are
always referenced from the local namespace (so locals() can return
them), even if nothing visible to the compiler looks them up. That
reference doesn't go away until the namespace does.

Cheers,
Nick.

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