Python critique

[Dan Stromberg]

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.
>
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And classes and methods.

Also, I like to draw a distinction between "code scopes" and "data
scopes".  We've been talking about data scopes.  Code scopes are
pretty much indents and dedents in Python - they define what code is
operated on by something code-flow-related.

To the OP: Python doesn't need a "my" or "local" - it has more
rational defaults.