In article <200310220314.h9M3Euk11066 at oma.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Guido: >> > > def inner(): > > > outer.x = 42 > > > > Because this already means something! >> Hmmm, maybe >> x of outer = 42 >> Determined-to-get-an-'of'-into-the-language-somehow-ly, scope(outer).x = 42 Almost implementable now by using the inspect module to find the first matching scope, except that inspect can't change the local variable values, only look at them. -- David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science