[Python-3000] Draft PEP for outer scopes

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Nov 3 02:53:17 CET 2006


Talin wrote:

> Right now, you can create a global variable from within a scope, even if 
> that variable hasn't been declared yet:

That doesn't seem like a good practice from a
readability point of view to me, but in any
case, there's no reason it couldn't continue
to be supported:

If you don't find any assigment to the name
in an enclosing scope, just assume it's
module-level.

--
Greg


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