[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond (original) (raw)

Andrew Koenig ark at acm.org
Fri Jun 30 18:52:53 CEST 2006

I think it should increment (i.e. rebind) g, for the same reason that

g = [1] def f(): g[0] += 1 f() rebinds g[0].

I saw messages out of sequence and did not realize that this would be a change in behavior from 2.4. Sigh.

I hope Py3000 has lexical scoping a la Scheme...