J. Peng wrote: > Sounds strange. > In perl we can modify the variable's value like this way: > > $ perl -le ' >> $x=123; >> sub test { >> $x=456; >> } >> test; >> print $x ' > 456
Not all that strange. The Python equivalent is x=123 sub test() global x x=456 test() print x Python assignment works by binding an object with a name in a namespace. I suspect that perl does something similar, and the differences are in the rules about which namespace to use. Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list