On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:15 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:37:34PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Also, what about this: > > > > constant x = 10 > > def f(): > > x = 20 > > > > SyntaxError? Runtime error? Shadowing? > > The x inside the function is just a local variable. The x outside the > function and the x inside it are in different namespaces and shouldn't > clobber each other any more than variables in different namespaces do.
I'd kinda expect that too, but given the uncertainties in the rest of this thread, I wasn't certain. I'm fairly lost as to what the proposal even is, though. It seems to morph every time it gets poked. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AQFQXG3INBUBBOY7FGJCQKODRWKZDL6A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
