Nested function scope problem

[Jeremy Sanders]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Going back to the original question... What would be the most
> common/useful way to access variables from the outer function for writing
> from within the inner function?

I've done something like this (which doesn't look very nice)

def myfunc():

   tok = ['']

   def inner():
       tok[0] += 'hi'
       ...
       tok[0] = 'foo'

   inner()
   print tok[0]

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Jeremy Sanders
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