On Jan 6, 5:31 am, Casey <casey...@gmail.com> wrote: > In PEP 3104 the nonlocal statement was proposed and accepted for > implementation in Python 3.0 for access to names in outer scopes. The > proposed syntax included an optional assignment or augmented > assignment to the outer name, such as: > > nonlocal x += 1 > > This syntax doesn't appear to be supported in the 3.0 implementation. > My question is: was this intentional or was it missed in the initial > release? If it was intentional, is there any plan to support it in a > later 3.x release? I realize it is a very small convenience feature > but I have already come across a couple of cases where I use nested > functions where it does make the code seem a little cleaner. > > Regards, Casey
`nonlocal` should behave just like `global` does. It doesn't support that syntax either. So, yes it was intentional. No, there probably is no plan to support it in a later release. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list