Re: [Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

2006-07-06 Thread jan-python
So.. are we only thinking about implementing this outer scope assignment because there's lots of talk about it on the list, or are there actually use cases that would become clearer if assigning to an outer scope variable was allowed? I tend to think that almost _any_ piece of code that could be

[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond

2006-07-02 Thread jan-python
Hi everyone, Even though I'm new on this list I think I've got something sensible to say on this one. (I've been following this list a bit through the archives) Andrew Koenig wrote: > You seem to be right -- the problem is not that Python is lexically scoped, > but that when you define a variabl