Could someone please paraphrase this statement about variables and functions in Python?

[newspost2012 at gmx.de]

Am Donnerstag, 5. September 2013 19:05:17 UTC+2 schrieb Joel Goldstick:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM,  <jsrig88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Even as a professional programmer, I'm not really able to follow this.
>> It appears to be self-contradictory, amgiguous, incomplete, and possessive
>> of logical missteps.  The problem with looking for this information
>> elsewhere is that it's not going to be all in one spot like this half the
>> time, and it's not going to be readily searchable on Google without more
>> knowledge of what it's referring to.  However this looks like something
>> that's too important to overlook.
>>
>> I can tell it's referring to things like scope, pass-by-value, references,
>> probably the call stack, etc., but it is written extremely poorly.
>> Translation please?  Thanks!
>
> Nearly everyone gets confused by this initially.  You should google
> python namespaces

You can also take a look at http://nedbatchelder.com/text/names.html
It was a great help for me. Many thanks Ned!

- martin -