Steve Holden schrieb:

>> What name do you prefer? I'm +1 with Raymond on __root__ but I'm still
>> open for better suggestions.
>> 
> The namespace should really be called __global__. I doubt this will fly, 
> because it's too radical, and unfortunately would undermine the "global" 
> keyword, used in 2.x to indicate that a name should be sought in the 
> module namespace.

There are quite a few other places where "globals" is used with that meaning.

> I doubt many people would want to replace "global" with "module".
> 
> What's it being replaced with in 3.x?

Nothing yet, it's still there, together with "nonlocal".

Georg

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