[Python-Dev] classes and cell variables question (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Dec 29 22:23:14 CET 2006


On 12/29/06, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/29/06, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote: > def spam(): > x = 5 > class eggs(object): > x = 6 > def spam(self): > return x > return eggs > > spam()().spam() should return 5. >

the question that arises is -- is this what we wanted? if i had to read such code, where i can't (easily) tell where "x" is bound to, i wouldn't be content, to say the least.

It's obfuscated code. But there is no doubt that these are the semantics that we wanted, and still want.

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