[Python-Dev] nonlocal x = value

[Laurens Van Houtven]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Yes and no -- there may not be an ambiguity to the parser, but still to
> the human.  Except if you disallow the syntax in any case, requiring
> people to write
>
> nonlocal x = (3, y)
>
> which is then again inconsistent with ordinary assignment statements.
>
> Georg

Right -- but (and hence the confusion) I was arguing for not mixing
global/nonlocal with assignment at all, and instead having nonlocal
and global only take one or more names. That would (obviously) remove
any such ambiguity ;-)

cheers
lvh