On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mike Krell <mbk.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any possibility of backporting support for the nonlocal keyword > into a 2.x release? I see it's not in 2.6, but I don't know if that was an > intentional design choice or due to a lack of demand / round tuits. I'm > also not sure if this would fall under the scope of the proposed moratorium > on new language features (although my first impression was that it could be > allowed since it already exists in python 3.
IIRC, Jeremy Hylton tried to backport it during a Pycon sprint a few years back. I think it was difficult and he dropped it. I don't know if there were any showstoppers or if Jeremy saved his work...or if my memory is even correct. :-) n _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
