On 04/29/2018 01:20 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
So, e.g.,""" a = 42 def showa(): print(a) def run(): global a local a: # assuming this existed a = 43 showa() showa() """ would print 43 and then 42. Which makes "local a:" sound senseless on the face of it ;-) "shadow" would be a more descriptive name for what it actually does.
Yeah, "shadow" would be a better name than "local", considering that it effectively temporarily changes what other functions see as global. Talk about a debugging nightmare! ;)
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