madpython <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Alex, again. The lesson has been taught. I appreciate very much > you spent time trying to help. Indeed the culprit of that infrequent > infinite loops was that bound reference "item" in the printing > loop. But frankly i thought that it only existed inside that loop. > Apparently I was wrong and glad that it was revealed.
Right -- a loop per se (be it a while loop or a for loop), just like an if statement or a try statement, is NOT a separate scope from the code around it (neither is a list comprehension); _functions_ are separate scopes, and so are genexps. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
