Binding frustration

[Terry Reedy]

"Ulrich Petri" <ulope at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:bkesft$105nn$1 at ID-67890.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Whenever you use the assignment syntax (foo = bar) you create a
"new"
> binding unless you have declared the name global.

Name assignment (name = expr) always creates a new binding (and
deletes any previous binding of the same name).  The 'global'
declaration only affects which namespace the binding is made in.  I
believe that any sense in which foo=bar would not make a 'new' binding
would be equally applicable to local as well as global binding.

Terry J. Reedy