Scope had to do with "visibility" and not with how memory was allocated. Scope means, can this line of code access that block of memory. Note that in list comprehension, [x for x in (1, 2, 3)], the for loop allocates memory the same way, but the scope changes so that "x" is visible outside the for loop, so I guess we will have to agree to disagree.
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