Creating a local variable scope.

[Ethan Furman]

Neal Becker wrote:
> markolopa at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sep 11, 7:36 pm, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqv... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I find several places in my code where I would like to have a variable
>>>scope that is smaller than the enclosing function/class/module
>>>definition.
>>
>>This is one of the single major frustrations I have with Python and a
>>important source of bugs for me. Here is a typical situation
>>
>>for i, j in visited:
>>    a[i, j] = 1
>>for i in range(rows):
>>    a[i, 0] = 1
>>for j in range(columns):
>>    a[0, i] = 1
>>
>>As you see the third loop has a bug (I am actually mixing two logics:
>>1) using i for rows and j for columns 2) using i for the first
>>iterator and j for the second). The result is a buggy code that is
>>tolerated by Python. In C++ or Perl I don't have this problem. I
>>wonder whether other people share this opinion and if we have ever had
>>PEPs trying to address that...
>>
>>Marko
> 
> 
> I agree.  I wish there were a convenient way to switch this 'feature' 
> on/off.  I believe the vast majority of the time I do not want variable 
> names leaking out into other scopes.  OTOH, sometimes it's convenient.
> 

loop != scope

~Ethan~