On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:30:03 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: > That said, I'm not too convinced. Personally, the proper way to do what > you are talking about is creating a new closure. Like: > > for i in range(100): > with new_scope(): > for i in range(100): > func(i) > func(i) # Using i from original loop > > But it's not like Python'll ever support that.
Probably not, but Python does support this: for i in range(100): for j in range(100): func(j) func(i) # Using i from original loop which solves the problem of inner i overwriting outer i nicely. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list