scope of variables

[Gary Wessle]

"Steve R. Hastings" <steve at hastings.org> writes:

> On Thu, 04 May 2006 07:02:43 +1000, Gary Wessle wrote:
> > b = 3
> > def adding(a)
> >     print a + b
> > 
> > it seams not to see the up-level scope where b is defined.
> 
> Assuming you put a ':' after the "def adding(a)", this should work in
> recent versions of Python.  In Python 2.0 and older, this will not work.

the example was an in-accuretlly representation of a the problem I am
having. my apologies.

a = []
def prnt():
   print len(a)

>>> prnt
<function prnt at 0xb7dc21b4>

I expect to get 0 "the length of list a"