On Sep 2, 12:36 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > En Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:28:09 -0300, Travis Parks <jehugalea...@gmail.com> > escribi : > > > On Aug 31, 7:37 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > >> Ian Kelly wrote: > >> > if sys.version_info < (3,): > >> > getDictValues = dict.itervalues > >> > else: > >> > getDictValues = dict.values > > >> > (which is basically what the OP was doing in the first place). > > > My problem was that I didn't understand the scoping rules. It is still > > strange to me that the getValues variable is still in scope outside > > the if/else branches. > > Those if/else are at global scope. An 'if' statement does not introduce a > new scope; so getDictValues, despite being "indented", is defined at > global scope, and may be used anywhere in the module. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina > >
Does that mean the rules would be different inside a function? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
