questions about scope/threading

[Aahz]

In article <ar1tph$q7$1 at wheel2.two14.net>,  <maney at pobox.com> wrote:
>Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thing is, while var3 is not a module global, any thread can access that
>> name through Class1.var3 -- therefore, the object bound to Class1.var3
>> is a completely global object, and you have to be careful what you do
>> with Class1.var3 (or the object bound to it if the object is mutable).
>> Tricky stuff.
>
>I hadn't thought about Python's scoping that way before.  So anything not
>"hidden" inside a function is present in the global tree of namespaces?
>(or class definition.  hmmm, any others?)

<evil grin>  No, *everything* is global.  Here's a fun one:

import dis

def f():
    print "Hello, world!"

print dir(f)
print dir(f.func_code)
print "Python bytecode for f:", repr(f.func_code.co_code)
print
print "Disassembled bytecode for f:"
print dis.dis(f)

One way or another, every object in Python is reachable using Python
code.  See also the gc module.
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A: No.
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