Nested scopes hitch

[Greg Weeks]

Duncan Booth (duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk) wrote:
: weeks at vitus.scs.agilent.com (Greg Weeks) wrote in
: news:1018044224.815568 at cswreg.cos.agilent.com: 

: > Anyway, it increased visibility enough so that it is no longer
: > possible to call a function and pass it the scope as two dictionaries,
: > which I had found handy on occasion.

: I don't think this is correct.
: If your function accesses variables in a nested scope, then those variables 
: are present in the dictionary locals().

I don't have the documentation or a Python 2.1 handy.  But I did originally
copy from the documentation the text:

    Names in class scope are not accessible.

    Under this proposal, it will not be possible to gain
    dictionary-style access to all visible scopes.

My interpretation of this is that visible bindings from an intermediate
scope will be in neither globals() nor locals().


Greg