[Python-Dev] closure semantics

Fri Oct 24 11:45:17 EDT 2003

> This made me think. What should be the effect of
>> def f():
> x = 12
> def g():
> global y in f
> y = 12
> g()
> print locals()
>> I suspect the answer is "it's illegal". But by extension from the
> current behaviour of "global", it should create a local variable in
> f.

I see no reason why it should be illegal; it should indeed create y
in f.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)