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[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 23 05:25:30 CET 2006 
Samuele Pedroni wrote:

> If you are looking for rough edges about nested scopes in Python
> this is probably worse:
> 
>  >>> x = []
>  >>> for i in range(10):
> ...   x.append(lambda : i)
> ...
>  >>> [y() for y in x]
> [9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9]

As an aside, is there any chance that this could be
changed in 3.0? I.e. have the for-loop create a new
binding for the loop variable on each iteration.

I know Guido seems to be attached to the idea of
being able to use the value of the loop variable
after the loop exits, but I find that to be a dubious
practice readability-wise, and I can't remember ever
using it. There are other ways of getting the same
effect, e.g. assigning it to another variable before
breaking out of the loop, or putting the loop in a
function and using return.

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