> > If that were so, Pythonistas could never write a recursive function! > > No, presumably at the writing of the edition of _Learning Python_ that > he is reading, Python did not have nested scopes in the language, yet. > One could always write a recursive function provided it was at the > top-level of the module. One could not write a recursive function inside > another function because inside inner(), it could only access two > namespaces, the one local to inner() and the module's namespace, not the > namespace of outer() where inner() is defined.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
