[Tutor] scope/namespaces

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

On 4/24/07, ammar azif <ceasar102 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> i am able to access the variable declared in that loop after the loop
> finishes which i am not able to do in languages like c/c++ or java. Is it
> different in python?

I'm not sure what you mean with "different", but the loop-variable is
not destroyed upon the exit of the for-loop:

>>> z
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'z' is not defined
>>> for z in (1,2,3): pass
...
>>> print z
3


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