[Python-Dev] nonlocal x = value (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 23 00:41:08 CET 2010

On 12/22/2010 5:11 PM, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Georg Brandl<g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Am 17.12.2010 17:52, schrieb Laurens Van Houtven:

+1 for throwing it out of the PEP. Assignment is a thing, nonlocal/global is a thing, don't mix them up :) (That in addition to the grammar cleanliness argument Stephan already made)

The trouble is what to make of nonlocal x = 3, y Is it two nonlocal declarations or one with a tuple assignment? Georg I'm not sure I understand. Isn't that another reason to throw it out?

I am sure he meant it to be, and I agree. We lived without global x = 3, y all these years.

If you don't allow such assignments, there can't be any ambiguity, right? (Or am I missing something?)

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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