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[Python-Dev] Scope issues [was: Alternative forms [was: PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions]]

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 04:29:47 CET 2014 
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> The PEP should therefore explicitly state that implementation details
> may force the deferral to be permanent, and that this is considered an
> acceptable trade-off.

How about words to this effect?

"""Should there be, in future, a way to create a true subscope (which
could simplify comprehensions, except expressions, with blocks, and
possibly more), then this proposal could be revived; until then, its
loss is not a great one..."""

(I parked the time machine in the PSU's garage, thanks for lending me it!)

(The PSU does not exist, and therefore does not have a garage.)

ChrisA
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