On 2013-07-04, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > On 07/04/2013 01:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > <SNIP> >> Well, if I ever have more than 63,000,000 variables[1] in a >> function, I'll keep that in mind. >> > <SNIP> >> >> [1] Based on empirical evidence that Python supports names >> with length at least up to one million characters long, and >> assuming that each character can be an ASCII letter, digit or >> underscore. > > Well, the number wouldn't be 63,000,000. Rather it'd be > 63**1000000
You should really count only the ones somebody might actually want to use. That's a much, much smaller number, though still plenty big. Inner scopes (I don't remember the official name) is a great feature of C++. It's not the right feature for Python, though, since Python doesn't have deterministic destruction. It wouldn't buy much except for namespace tidyness. for x in range(4): print(x) print(x) # Vader NOoooooOOOOOO!!! Python provides deterministic destruction with a different feature. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list