Anonymous Bastard wrote: > In Python, declaring a variable using the global statement automatically > makes it available in all subsequent scopes. > > But to me, it makes more sense to use the global statement to 'import' a > variable from the global scope into the current scope.
My understanding is that this is exactly what the 'nonlocal' keyword in Python 3.0 provides. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list