Terry J. Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The request as stated is invalid. 'Int' and 'long' are built-in names, not keywords.
The context of the cited sentence is "If a name is bound in a block, it is a local variable of that block, unless declared as nonlocal. If a name is bound at the module level, it is a global variable. (The variables of the module code block are local and global.) If a variable is used in a code block but not defined there, it is a free variable." Built-in names are not defined in the code block. Therefore, they are free names (variables). However, there is NO mention of builtins in this chapter up to this point*, so I can see how one could miss that. * The previous 'identifiers' chapter has only this: "The special identifier _ is used in the interactive interpreter to store the result of the last evaluation; it is stored in the builtins module." So something like the following could be added: "Free variables include the names of built-in objects." where *built-in objects* is linked to that section near the top of the Library manual. (The references later in the chapter are to the Lib manual entry on the builtins module, which pretty much repeats what is said later in the chapter.) ---------- nosy: +tjreedy priority: -> low _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4220> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
