[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes

Wed Feb 22 01:35:26 CET 2006

Georg Brandl wrote:
> But why is that better than
>> class namespace(object): pass
>> def my_func():
> foo = namespace()
> (...)

Because then it would be extremely difficult for CPython to
optimise accesses to foo into local variable lookups.
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