Python 3 removes name binding from outer scope

Tue Jul 25 00:48:56 EDT 2017

On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 7:12:44 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney quoted Thomas Jefferson's :

> The cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance.


An interesting standard of “trivial”… given…

UK has risen to more than £100 billion for the first time

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jun/15/uk-student-loan-debt-soars-to-more-than-100bn

coupled with politicians center-staging and flip-flopping on the issue [yesterday's news]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-student-loans-debt-manifesto-pledge-amnesty-cancel-tuition-fees-a7856161.html

While US student debt now stands at $1.3 trillion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/02/21/student-loan-debt-statistics-2017/#2d2db52d5dab