On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:02:38 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: >> Thanks, but hey, contradiction: you mention globals as an "enclosing" >> scope, i.e. that a module can have a scope, while stating that only >> classes and functions have their own scope (so, would a module have >> it's not own scope?). > > module scope == global scope > > That is, there is nothing higher than module scope. (So, yes, global is > a slight misnomer... in Python it means 'global to a module'.)
Actually there is: built-ins. That's why you can access (e.g.) len without having to define it, or import it, first. And what's more, you can do this: >>> len([1,2,3]) 3 >>> def len(x): # Shadow the built-in ... return -3 ... >>> len([1,2,3]) -3 >>> del len >>> len([1,2,3]) # It's back! 3 -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
