[Python-Dev] elimination of scope bleeding ofiteration variables (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Wed May 3 00:29:43 CEST 2006


Josiah Carlson wrote:

for line in lines: line = line.rstrip() ...

Exactly the use case I was thinking of (and one I used yesterday BTW).

I'm -1 on disallowing reusing a name bound in a for loop in any construct i.e. +1 for the status quo.

Tim Delaney



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