-On [20080103 14:47], Bernhard Merkle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Are you sure ? what about the following example ? >Is this also shadowing ?
It is, as it is local to your current executing interpreter. Any other Python process that is currently running is unaffected by your shadowing. So as Diez says, you are not tampering with it on a persistent global level. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ Any fool can make a rule. And every fool will mind it... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list