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Python 3 removes name binding from outer scope

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jul 25 03:02:48 EDT 2017 
Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Having to make another name for the same object, merely to avoid some
> surprising behaviour, is IMO un-Pythonic.

I suppose my objection is rooted in the fact this behaviour is implicit;
my code has not issued a ‘del’ statement, and so I don't expect one; yet
it occurs implicitly. This violates the Zen of Python.

> PEP 3000 documents the change::

I got the wrong number there; it's PEP 3110.

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