On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:02 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Assignment is a statement" -- that's exactly the point under discussion.
> "del is a statement" -- yes, granted
> "function and class declarations are statements" -- class, yes, but
> you have "def" and "lambda" as statement and expression equivalents.
> "import is a statement" -- but importlib.import_module exists for a reason
I'm going to assume that your term "mutating" there was simply a
> miswording, and that you're actually talking about *name binding*,
> which hitherto occurs only in statements. Yes, this is true.
>
Nope, not actually:
>>> del foo
>>> print(globals().update({'foo':42}), foo)
None 42
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