Strange variable scope... is this right?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Emile van Sebille wrote:
> Assuming that's correct then, is this piece of code with
> annotations the way that it's working?
>
> f = ["row", "cow", "arrow"]
> # create three element list object and bind to 'f'
> for f in f:
>     # save reference to 'f' to iterate over,
>     # re-binding 'f' to each in turn
>     for f in range (len (f)):
>         # save reference to newly created range object
>         # of len (f)
>         # re-binding 'f' to each in turn
>
> It feels like this is less an issue with namespaces and more
> an issue of how the for loop works.
>
> Am-I-getting-closer-ly y'rs,

cannot get much closer.

see http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/for.html
for a formal description.

Cheers /F