Gary, First of all, many thanks for the reply. Do I understand it correctly that actually the rule has to be refined as pertaining to the (so called) "immutable" types (like e.g. integers, tuples/strings) whereas lists and dictionaries are "mutable" types and the said scoping rule does not apply ?
Thanks again, Florian On 1/13/06, Gary Duzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right. However, assigning to a['foo'] modifies the object to which > 'a' refers, not the 'a' variable itself. The rule is limited to the > rebinding of variables, not the modification of the objects to which > they refer. > > Gary Duzan > Motorola CHS > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
