changing local namespace of a function

[Nick Coghlan]

Bo Peng wrote:
> By the way, will 'with statement', like the one in pascal and many other 
> languages, be a good addition to python? For example,
> 
> with d do:
>   z = x + y
> 
> would be equivalent to d['z']=d['x']+d['y'] or d.z = d.x + d.y in some 
> other cases.
> 
> This would absolutely be the *best* solution to my problem.
> 
> Bo

Guido van Rossum has stated that he wants Python to eventually have a 'with' 
statement of the form:

   with d:
    .z = .x + .y

(The leading '.' being required to avoid ambiguity in name lookups)

Cheers,
Nick.

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