On 02/07/2013 09:30 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > count = 0 > class Blah: > def meth(): > for x in range(100): > count = x > > Where is count living? > > Of course in this simplistic example we can see that count is @ > module level
Except that it's not after the "count=x" statement inside the for loop. That's entirely within the local scope. Names bound to objects always default to the local namespace, whatever that is. If your function referred to "count" without any assignment, then it's unclear as to which namespace it is in. It could be the class namespace, or the module namespace. But that's a problem no different than in any language. Python does differ, from, say C, where global variables can be read and written to without any special declarations in a function, though you can tell at a glance whether or not a variable is declared in the local scope. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
