Python scope is too complicated

[Dan Bishop]

jfj wrote:
> Max wrote:
> > Yeah, I know. It's the price we pay for forsaking variable
declarations.
> > But for java programmers like me, Py's scoping is too complicated.
> > Please explain what constitutes a block/namespace, and how to refer
to
> > variables outside of it.
>
>
> Some may disagree, but for me the easiest way to understand python's
> scopes is this:
>
> """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