Why doesn't this work ? For loop variable scoping ?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:33:36 -0300, Ryan Kelly <ryan at rfk.id.au> escribió:

>>         newCylinderTempertature = newCylinderTemperature + deltaTemp
>
> Take a careful look at the variable name here: "Tempertature".  Python's
> dynamic nature provides a lot of wonderful benefits, but you've just hit
> one of the drawbacks - you don't get any protection from typos in
> variable names.

There are some tools that mitigate the problem: pylint and pychecker would  
emit a warning in this case ("name is used only once" or similar), and the  
autocompletion feature -present in most IDE / specialized editors- avoids  
one to re-type the name over and over.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina