[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 01:35:26 CET 2006


Georg Brandl wrote:

But why is that better than

class namespace(object): pass def myfunc(): foo = namespace() (...)

Because then it would be extremely difficult for CPython to optimise accesses to foo into local variable lookups.

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