On Dec 17, 10:19 am, walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote: > For a language as well structured as Python, this seems somewhat > sloppy, and inconsistant. Or is there some good reason for this? > > Here is what I mean: > > def a(): > x = 99 > print x > > def b(): > print x > > a() > b() # raises an exception because x is not defined. > > However in the methods are within a class, the scoping seems to work > differently. > > class ab(): > def a(self): > self.x = 99 > print self.x > def b(self): > print self.x > > i = ab() > i.a() > i.b() # this works, why no lexical scoping?
If scoping worked as you want, how, pray tell, would you define object attributes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
