On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:20:45 -0700, cts.private.yahoo wrote: >> Without wanting to analyze it in too much depth now, I >> would want a local keyword to allow me to know I was protecting my >> variables, and a way to specify other scopes, without so much implied >> scoping in non-intuitive ways... > > Huh? What language are you programming in? Python doesn't have implied > scoping in non-intuitive ways.
def f(x): def g(y): print(x) x = y Within g, the variable x is implicitly local, which is non-intuitive since without the assignment it would not be. That said, while I think a local keyword would not be unwelcome, I would not want it to be required. Otherwise we end up with the scoping rules of Lua, where everything is global unless explicitly marked as local. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list