On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:18:29 GMT, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>I understand what global and built-in are, and I thought I understood
>the concept of local too, but when I got to this sentence (and the
>previous sentence), I became confused about the first two scopes. What's
>the difference between 'local' and 'enclosing functions'? I thought that
>the only way to create a local namespace was if there *was* a function
>definition, so now I'm confused by the apparent difference that the
>authors are referring to. What's an example of a local scope without
>having a function definition? Loops and if statements, perhaps?
print dir # comes from __builtins__
dir = 10
print dir # comes from globals
def foo():
dir = 10
print dir # comes from locals
def bar():
print dir # comes from "enclosing scope" - foo's scope
Hope this helps,
Jean-Paul
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