[Python-Dev] Re: method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Mar 30 09:50:52 EST 2004

At 10:38 PM 3/29/04 -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:

On 03/29/04 18:51, Greg Ewing wrote:

Shane Hathaway <shane at zope.com>:

That would be nice, but here is what I would like it to mean:

def f(): dosomething() lock(foo)(f) But what about x = 17 with lock(foo): x = 42 print x ? Hmm, yep, that won't work. A pity.

It would work if the code in the block was treated as a nested scope but with write access to the immediately surrounding scope. But that's quite a bit of compiler change, I'd imagine. Anyway, this is one of the very few places where I'd actually be in favor of allowing rebinding variables from an enclosing scope.

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