Phillip J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> added the comment: I could argue either way on this one; it's true that deleting a nested-scope variable is sometimes desirable, but it also seems to me like closing over an except: variable is a Potentially Bad Idea.
In neither case, however, do I think it's appropriate to drop the temporary nature of the variable. I could perhaps get behind resetting the variable to None instead of deleting it, but of course the PEP would need changing. There's also a question of whether we should do the same thing with "with ... as" variables. (Btw, I'm not sure why this one's assigned to me; ISTM I might have proposed the current except/as GC semantics, but I'm not familiar with the actual implementation in 2.6 or 3.0) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4617> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
