How to create a limited set of instanceses of a class

[Alex Martelli]

madpython <madpython at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Alex, again. The lesson has been taught. I appreciate very much
> you spent time trying to help. Indeed the culprit of that infrequent
> infinite loops was that bound reference "item" in the printing
> loop. But frankly i thought that it only existed inside that loop.
> Apparently I was wrong and glad that it was revealed.

Right -- a loop per se (be it a while loop or a for loop), just like an
if statement or a try statement, is NOT a separate scope from the code
around it (neither is a list comprehension); _functions_ are separate
scopes, and so are genexps.


Alex