generator expression works in shell, NameError in script

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On Jun 18, 8:38 am, guthrie <grguth... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 6:38 pm, Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.c... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Still don't really understand why my initial code didn't work, though...
>
> Your code certainly looks reasonable, and looks to me like it "should"
> work. The comment of partial namespace is interesting, but
> unconvincing (to me) - but I am not a Python expert! It would
> certainly seem that within that code block it is in the local
> namespace, not removed from that scope to be in another.
>
> Seems that it should either be a bug, or else is a design error in the
> language!
>
> Just as in the above noted "WTF" - non-intuitive language constructs
> that surprise users are poor design.

This is certainly an odd one. This code works fine under 2.6 but fails
in Python 3.1.

>>> class x:
...     lst=[2]
...     gen=[lst.index(e) for e in lst]
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in x
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <listcomp>
NameError: global name 'lst' is not defined
>>>