nonlocal fails ?

[R.Wieser]

Richard,

> Assuming that one language works like another is a danger

Abitrarily redefining words and using misnomers is another ...  ("global" 
and "nonlocal" respecivily if you wonder)

> First, Python doesn't really have 'Variables' like a lot of other 
> languages
> (they don't hold a bag of bytes), as Python names don't hold values, but
> are just references to objects which actually hold the value

That's a principle as old as programming languages itself I believe.

> If the name is never bound to something, then the name will be also looked
> for in the global namespace.

Can you give an example of that ?    I currently cannot wrap my head around 
what you could be meaning there - anything I can imagine simply doesn't make 
any sense ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser