Nested function scope problem

[Steve Holden]

danielx wrote:
> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
[...]
>>Yes, but it is the line "tok = ''" that seems to cause tok to be now a
>>variable of the inner function's scope (rather than the variable tok of
>>breakLine).
> 
> 
> OHH! Yes, that sounds like it could be it. Wow, to me, that behavior is
> eXtremely unexpected (there's lisp popping up its ugly head again :P).
> So you're saying that because an assignment to tok appears later within
> the def for addTok, that the line if len(tok) won't try to look in
> enclosing local scopes? (If such things even exist...)
> 
> Gerhard's reply sounded not so confident. Can we have someone who
> "really" knows weigh in on this? Thanks!
> 
Would I do? If there's a binding to a name *anywhere* in the function's 
body then that name is treated as local to the function. This is a 
matter of static analysis, and is irrespective of where in the body the 
assignment is found.

Of course, you could always test this yourself in interactive mode ...

regards
  Steve
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