[Tutor] Accessing local variables from nested functions.

[Alan Gauld]

> what's the Python way of accessing local variables 
> in nesting functions? 

THats usually bad practice, and since it is a nested function 
why not just return a value?

def p():
  var1 = 3
  def q():
    print 'var1 in p is', var1
    return 42
  var1 = q()

After all var1 only exists within p() so you might as well 
assign it there. If you need to return more than one value 
recall that Python can return a tuple:

def f():
  v = 1
  u = 2
  def g()
    w = 42
    x = 24
    return w,x
  u,v = g()
  return u

Does that help?

Alan G.

PS In other words I don't know the real answer to your 
question! Other than maybe messing with locals dictionaries 
etc that  are really horrible and messy :-)