On 2006-07-25, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >> On 2006-07-25 04:06:24, Steve Holden wrote: >> > Since Python has no "local variable declaration", there must be a rule > to distinguish local names from names living in the enclosing > namespaces. The rule is: unless previously declared 'global' (ie > module-level) with the appropriate statement, any name bound in the > local namespace is local. If declared 'global', it has to exist in the > global namespace. > > This was much more simple to understand when we didn't have nested > functions - we mostly had global and local scope.
But having only a global an local scope, didn't prevent nested functions. The nested functions just didn't have nested scopes and that had it's own problems. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
