[Tutor] what is dynamic about "dynamic name resolution" ?

[wesley chun]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Robert <webtourist at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the Python tutorial (highlighted here http://awurl.com/N1XvzIo2Q)
>
> What exactly is "dynamic name resolution" ? specifically what is
> "dynamic" about it ?


what this means is that as your code is executing and the interpreter
encounters an identifier/variable, it "dynamically" looks up the
variable at that point -- it checks at that point to see if it's a
local variable; if not, global; finally it checks if it's a built-in.

to rephrase: this check is *not* done during compile time (static);
instead, it is done during runtime (dynamic). if it were static, it
would've already been checked *before* your code ever started running.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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