[docs] [issue26683] Questionable terminology for describing what locals() does
Raymond Hettinger
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Apr 1 00:53:44 EDT 2016
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
> A national variable maybe :)
I would think that "nonlocal" is exactly the right term given that that is how you would declare it if you wanted to write to it.
>>> w = 5
>>> def f(x):
def g(y):
nonlocal x
global w
z = x + y
x += 1
print(locals())
print(globals())
return g
>>> f(10)(20)
{'y': 20, 'x': 11, 'z': 30}
{'w': 5, ...}
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