Assignment versus binding

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 09:32 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Are not the contents of the scope and the shape of the scope different
> things?


What does "the shape of the scope" mean?

Scopes don't have a shape -- they aren't geometric objects. So I'm afraid I
don't understand what distinction you are trying to make.



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Steve
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