Python 3.0 nonlocal statement

[Matimus]

On Jan 6, 5:31 am, Casey <Casey... at gmail.com> wrote:
> In PEP 3104 the nonlocal statement was proposed and accepted for
> implementation in Python 3.0 for access to names in outer scopes.  The
> proposed syntax included an optional assignment or augmented
> assignment to the outer name, such as:
>
> nonlocal x += 1
>
> This syntax doesn't appear to be supported in the 3.0 implementation.
> My question is: was this intentional or was it missed in the initial
> release?  If it was intentional, is there any plan to support it in a
> later 3.x release?  I realize it is a very small convenience feature
> but I have already come across a couple of cases where I use nested
> functions where it does make the code seem a little cleaner.
>
> Regards, Casey

`nonlocal` should behave just like `global` does. It doesn't support
that syntax either. So, yes it was intentional. No, there probably is
no plan to support it in a later release.

Matt