On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:52 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > 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 >
Try it inside a function though. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com