On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Picachu Nioto <picachu.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could some one explain to me this sentence, I read in an example online > > "Python doesn't implement assignment of variables bound in an enclosing > lexical context" > > Example, > a=[b]
I'm not sure where you got this sentence means but Python's scoping is lexical but has 2 namespaces accessible from the current point of execution (locals and globals) which are arguably dynamic. Here's an example to show lexical scoping. http://pastebin.com/k2S5pvjZ You can see that it prints 1 which is the value of the free identifier foo lexically at the point of the print. As a counter example, here's an example in Emacs lisp which parallels the above but since it's dynamically scoped, the value printed is 2. http://pastebin.com/KX0JwC0u -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
