> But we're talking about the mythical/hypothetical Python 3, so maybe > there's a chance of fixing the scoping rules, which it seems to me are > currently pretty badly broken.
I don't think the current scoping rules will be changed in Python 3.0. I can't give you the link right now, but there are threads about the scope rules in python-dev, with various people protesting and Guido saying that he wants to keep them as they are. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list