Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > The c.parent.parent.parent chain finds successive enclosing contexts:
I was asking about finding the child contexts, not the parents. This is analogous to how you can find the keys in a dict with dict.keys(). >> One question: what should >> >> c["foo"] = 7 >> d = c.new_child() >> del d["foo"] >> >> do? > > By default, it raises a KeyError because 'foo' is not in the current > context. But if enable_nonlocal is set to True, it removes 'foo' from > the parent context, c. I would not have guessed either of those behaviors. What happens on c["foo"] = 7 d = c.new_child() d["foo"] = 8 del d["foo"] print c["foo"], d["foo"] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list