On Aug 11, 8:48 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 8/11/2011 3:19 AM, Paddy wrote: > > > We can access nonlocal variables in a function, but if we were to eval/ > > exec the function we cannot set up a nested stack of evironment dicts. > > We are limited to just two: global and local. > > Right. That was and is Python's execution model. > Note that when you exec code, including a function call, the locals > passed is the local context in which the code is executed. It is not the > locals of any particular function called by the exec-ed code. > > If you exec a function that is a closure, the closure or non-local > objects come with the function. A 'stack of dicts' has nothing to do > with how function and nested funcs operate. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
Thanks Terry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
