Objects in Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Also, built-ins require a name lookup too. As you point out, locals are
> special, but Python will search an arbitrarily deep set of nested
> nonlocal scopes, then globals, then builtins.

Ah, builtins, forgot that. So yes, global scope involves potentially
two name lookups. But nonlocals aren't searched at run time.

ChrisA