On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, <w.w.mil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Is f local or not? > http://pastebin.com/AKDJrbDs
With something that short, it'd be easier to simply paste it straight into your post, rather than having it off elsewhere. But to answer your question: It is its own kind of beast. You can play around with the dis.dis() function (start with "import dis", which is not just "import this" with an accent) in the interactive interpreter, as an effective way of finding out what actually happens. In my testing, the opcodes for retrieving and updating 'f' are LOAD_DEREF and STORE_DEREF, different from LOAD_FAST/STORE_FAST as used for locals, and LOAD_GLOBAL/STORE_GLOBAL for globals. In normal usage, nonlocal variables are most like local variables, but they happen to span one level of function nesting. So they're still basically locals, hence they appear in locals(). At least, that's my understanding of it. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
