Richard, > Assuming that one language works like another is a danger
Abitrarily redefining words and using misnomers is another ... ("global" and "nonlocal" respecivily if you wonder) > First, Python doesn't really have 'Variables' like a lot of other > languages > (they don't hold a bag of bytes), as Python names don't hold values, but > are just references to objects which actually hold the value That's a principle as old as programming languages itself I believe. > If the name is never bound to something, then the name will be also looked > for in the global namespace. Can you give an example of that ? I currently cannot wrap my head around what you could be meaning there - anything I can imagine simply doesn't make any sense ... Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list