[Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Oct 22 22:24:35 CEST 2009

Mike Krell wrote:

Is there any possibility of backporting support for the nonlocal keyword into a 2.x release?

If so, only into 2.7. Can you please explain why it would be desirable to do that? 2.7 will likely be the last 2.x release, so only a fairly small portion of the applications would be actually able to use this (or any other new feature added to 2.7): most code supporting 2.x will also have to support 2.6, so the keyword won't be available to such code, anyway.

Regards, Martin

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