On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I was playing around with this a bit and arrived at the following > surprising (for me at least) result. I thought the global/local/nonlocal > keywords could be used to get values from another scope. Though this > could also happen implicitly, e.g. if only x = "I am global" is defined > and x is used (and not redefined) inside a function, then python still > knows this variable inside that function. > > Is there any way to make this work? (it may not be desirable, though)
local isn't a keyword. Maybe you're thinking of the locals() function. The global and nonlocal keywords define the scope of a name for the entire block. You can't flip it on and off like a toggle switch. That would give me headaches. Anyway, try to avoid globals and use descriptive names. If you still have a clash, use globals()[name]. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
