[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?) (original) (raw)

Simon Percivall s.percivall at chello.se
Wed Jul 5 14🔞00 CEST 2006

I know this is very similar to the "global.x =" syntax, which was already shot down?, but wouldn't allowing access to a functions locals from within, by prefixing the name, be a good way to disambiguate what happens (instead of any operator to indicate outer scope, like .x = 3 or the like)? I guess this necessitates "global.x =" as well, though.

def foo(): def bar(): foo.x = 3 print x # prints 3

I seem to recall that this syntax has been proposed before, though not in this discussion. But my memory is murky.

//Simon

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