Python scope is too complicated

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Dan Bishop wrote:
> 
> > """In Python, there are only two scopes.  The global and the local.
> > The global scope is a dictionary while the local, in the case of a
> > function is extremely fast.  There are no other scopes.
> 
> This isn't true anymore, now that generator comprehensions have been
> added to the language.
> 
> >>> x = 17
> >>> sum(x for x in xrange(101))
> 5050
> >>> x
> 17
> 

The equivalent in list comprehensions which currently allows the x to
leak out into its containing scope is going away soon.  Will that be
another scope?  Or are generator and list comprehensions only one scope?

Metta,
Ivan
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