Could someone please paraphrase this statement about variables and functions in Python?

2013-09-05 Thread jsrig88
I am going through the tutorials on docs.python.org, and I came across this excerpt from http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html: "The execution of a function introduces a new symbol table used for the local variables of the function. More precisely, all variable assignments in a fun

Could someone please paraphrase this statement about variables and functions in Python?

2013-09-05 Thread jsrig88
Could someone please paraphrase this statement about variables and functions in Python? I am going through the tutorials on docs.python.org, and I came across this excerpt from http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html: "The execution of a function introduces a new symbol table used fo