Python critique

[Steve Holden]

On 12/11/2010 6:46 AM, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 12/11/10 11:37, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2010 3:25 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>> Benjamin Kaplan, 11.12.2010 00:13:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>>>> The only scopes Python has are module and function.
>>>
>>> There's more.  Both a lambda, and in Python 3.x,
>>> list comprehensions, introduce a new scope.
>>
>> And classes and methods.
> 
> Also, class scope and instance scope, though similar, are distinct
> scopes. Python also have the hidden interpreter-level scope (the
> __builtins__).

But classes and instances don't have scopes. They have namespaces.

That is, if we are talking about lexical scoping.

regards
 Steve
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