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Nested scopes: design or implementation?

Terry Reedy tejarex at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 5 22:32:54 EST 2002 
"logistix" <logstx at bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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> Is the following code operating this way by design or is it just
> implementation?  It seems to indicate that the nested function is
redefined
> each time the parent function is called.  Is this necessary or
desirable?

It is consistent with the Python execution model.  'def' is an
*executable* statement, not a declaration.  When 'def' occurs and is
encountered at module level, it is executed.  When a function is
called, *all* the statements within (except 'global' declarations) are
executed as encountered.

Terry J. Reedy
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