On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:02:16 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > 2) Related to the above, you can infinitely nest scopes. There's nothing > wrong with having six variables called 'q'; you always use the innermost > one. Yes, this can hurt readability
Well, there you go. There *is* something wrong with having six variables called 'q'. Namespaces and scopes are work-arounds for the fact that, while there are an infinite number of possible names, most of the good ones are already taken. Namespaces and scopes mean that I can use a name "q" even though I've already used it for something else, but there is still cost to re-using names (even if that cost is sometimes trivial). -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
