nested scopes

[Rainer Deyke]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.981181863.15223.python-list at python.org...
> WRT scopes, the determination of which names are local is entirely done at
> compile-time.  That wasn't always true, but has been true since version
> 0.9.9, and was the single biggest speedup in Python's history.  The
> determination of which names are local is still done at compile-time in
the
> presence of "import *" and "exec", but then the results can't be trusted,
> and the compiler generates different code that does all sorts of crap
under
> the covers to give "the expected" results -- most of the time.  I doubt
that
> crap will get extended to live nice with deeply nested scopes, though.

"Most of the time" is significant here.  There are at least two
inconsistencies in functions with 'import *' as of 2.0.  Can you say "source
of subtle bugs"?


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